Explore every episode of the podcast We Make the Road by Walking Podcast

Tattooed on my right foot is a line from the Spanish poet Antonio Machado. In English it reads: We make the road by walking.

I am a funeral and a wedding celebrant and a writer, and for many years I was a Church of England priest. Most weeks, I stand with families at the edges of life: new relationships and the realities of death. Over time, those thresholds have taught me a great deal about how to live.

This podcast is where I think out loud about that. Each episode reflects on moments I’ve witnessed and what they have taught me. The thinking is rooted in a secular spiritual method derived from the Rule of St Benedict, a sixth-century guide to ordinary life written for monks and used here without its theology. Every episode closes with one small practice to carry into the week.

This is for anyone who has felt the ground shift under them, whatever they believe or have stopped believing.

The first episode arrives on Tuesday 13 October.

We’ll make the road by walking, and find solid ground along the way.

The quotation is from Antonio Machado, Campos de Castilla (1912).

For more about David, visit www.davidlinaker.com