Principal Meets Author: Matthew Anderson, The Good Walk

Lutheran pastor Matthew Anderson is well known for his approach to Christianity and pilgrimage, seeing in pilgrimage an important way of moving through the world as a Christian. In this Principal Meets Author session, Anderson will speak about his writing, especially his book, The Good Walk. In it, Anderson offers an innovative new approach to reconciliation with Indigenous peoples through the lens of pilgrimage. Anderson grew up in Saskatchewan and was taught to revere the pioneer past of his family. But he also became increasingly aware of the injustices that this pioneer past imposed on the original inhabitants of the land. In The Good Walk, Anderson combines memoir, travelogue, and manifesto to confront the painful past and present of settler-Indigenous relationships and describe how understanding ourselves as pilgrims on the land offers a new path towards reconciliation. Since its publication earlier this year, The Good Walk has already received immense praise and is sure to be an important contribution to this vital conversation.

Join Dio Principal Jesse Zink for an online conversation with Matthew Anderson. We’ll talk about the challenges to reconciliation, understanding our past, and moving together towards a more hopeful future. We’ll also have a chance to talk about some of Anderson’s other recent books, including Our Home and Treaty Land and Someone Else’s Saint.