"To make a pilgrimage is to surrender to a place until it changes you," shares Sister Laura Nettles. "We knew that to honor her [Sister Thea Bowman] holiness meant finally confronting the painful truths she had always compelled us to see."
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Not as tourists, but as pilgrims, we followed Thea Bowman through Mississippi
To make a pilgrimage is to surrender to a place until it changes you. Sister Thea understood this type of transformation. She knew that the work of racial justice could not be done from a distance.