"Lori Erickson is just the sort of person you want to take with you to some of the most spiritual places on the planet. Whether on the scent of Luther in Germany, delving for elves in Iceland, or tracing the footsteps of St Columba on the island of Iona, Erickson enlightens and informs us as she connects each pilgrimage to her own personal story. Her honest, wise and humorous prose makes her zigzagging journey, and its search for spiritual truth, our own."

"With grace and wit, Lori Erickson takes us on a pilgrimage to sacred sites around the world, from Martin Luther’s Wittenberg, Germany, to Lourdes in France, to the Lakota’s Mato Paha or Bear Mountain in the Black Hills of South Dakota. In each of these locations, Erickson reveals a bit more of her own spiritual journey, of her own exploration of the deeper mystical meanings that underlie all faiths. Through her own quest, she becomes a healer and a wise woman. Through a book filled with insight and deftly written prose, she invites us to follow her visionary path."

"Lori Erickson’s sense of adventure and sense of the sacred—as well as her open spirit and love of life—made me grateful to follow her wherever she went (and she went to more holy sites than I could have imagined!). Along the way, I discovered religions and traditions I never heard of, gained a deeper understanding of those I knew, and learned, as she did, what it truly means to be on pilgrimage. Lively prose, rich descriptions, and anecdotes that are in turn poignant, funny, and mysterious all combine to make this a wondrous journey."

"Holy Rover takes you on an exciting tour of holy places and stopping points on a personal discovery of spiritual insight. The writing is so good that you’ll speed through this book and wish it didn’t end. Add the perfect touch of humor, and you won’t realize how much serious ground historically and theologically you’ve covered. Read it with pleasure."

"When I was first approached about reading and possibly endorsing Holy Rover I was both interested and irritated.

Interested because the subject was right up my alley and irritated for exactly the same reason. It sounded like a book I would love to read but also one that I would love to write. The fact that Lori Erickson had the sexiest writer gig ever—that of travel writer—made me downright lusty with envy. I have always wanted to be a globe-trotting, living out of a backpack, travel writer. The fact that she was traveling to all my favorite sacred sites, the ones on my bucket list like Machu Pichu, the Isle of Iona, the Holy Land was just rubbing the salt in. 

Full of lust and envy I gathered the courage to open the book and begin to read. The experience only grew worse. Here she was hanging with the shadows of Thomas Merton and Hildegard of Bingen. Now she was having theological sit-ins with Lacota storytellers and Buddhist wise men. 

Every turning page only fanned the flame because Lori Erickson was walking out my wishful soulful journey on her pages and in her life yet I couldn’t stop reading. Because the stories were that good, her honesty that real. 

Reading Holy Rover is like hitting the lotto of a road-trip with Anne Lamott, Barbara Brown Taylor, and Elizabeth Gilbert—one filled with intoxicating conversations, exciting discoveries, and plenty of spiritual rule-breaking.

I feel like I’ve found a soul-sister in Christ and in the world. And, that is a rare and powerful thing."