“Walking together is one of the most ancient human practices. It’s how we’ve always learned to be in relationship—with each other, with the land, and with God.”
-Reverend Rita Powell
Reverend Rita Powell is the Episcopal chaplain at Harvard, formerly a priest at Trinity Church in Boston, and a longtime spiritual innovator whose journey has included living in the monastic community of Taizé in France and working closely with Native communities in South Dakota. A Yale Divinity School graduate and recipient of the William Muehle Preaching Prize, Rita is a gifted storyteller and deeply spiritual human being. Beyond her formal roles, she embodies the practice of walking as prayer, offering, sacrament, and pilgrimage—a living expression of how movement can open us to healing, connection, and the sacred.
This conversation with Andy and Rita was recorded while walking. If you can, you’re invited to listen while walking too. And if walking is not available, you might feel called to listen in any way that helps you feel more connected to your body and the world around you.
"Walking" by Rainer Maria Rilke
My eyes already touch the sunny hill,
going far ahead of the road I have begun.
So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp;
it has inner light, even from a distance—
and changes us, even if we do not reach it,
into something else, which, hardly sensing it,
we already are; a gesture waves us on
answering our own wave...
but what we feel is the wind in our faces.
Show Notes:
* Watch: March 30, 2025 Sermon with The Rev. Rita Powell
Connect with Andy:
* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjcahill/
* Instagram: https://instagram.com/wonderdomepodcast
