In 1660, a tinker from Bedfordshire was offered his freedom in exchange for four words --- I will not preach. He chose the cell instead. Twelve years later he walked out with a book that would become the second most widely read work in the English language. John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress was not theology --- it was a map. A map of the interior journey that every human soul is already walking, whether they know it or not. From the Slough of Despond to Vanity Fair, Bunyan drew the landscape of ordinary life and found, written across it, the entire geography of the spirit. The call that found a tinker mending pots on a Bedfordshire road has not gone quiet. It finds people still --- in the middle of their ordinary, overscheduled, glowing-rectangle lives --- and says the same thing it always said. You are on a road. You always were.

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