If you were dropped alone into the deep wilderness with only a pocketknife and the clothes on your back, would you have what it takes to survive? I probably wouldn’t — or at least that is what the ...

Wilderness seasons are bewildering and lonely. Sometimes it’s easy to identify how you arrived in a desolate place—down paths with names like Diagnosis, or Loss, or Depression. Other times you find ...

Los Angeles has always been a resilient city, where residents understand what it means to be put to the test, to improve, and to rebuild. One woman’s journey in the unvarnished and intensely personal ...

The wilderness is a place of mystery and meaning-making. It’s an environment that features prominently in the Old and New Testaments. In the Bible, people sometimes end up in wild, open spaces of ...

The Desert Fathers saw it as faith’s testing ground. The Transcendentalists saw it as sanctuary. The Gospel writers had their own views. I still recall my first encounter with the American wilderness, ...

My backpacking trips have been alternately miserable and glorious, harsh and enlightening. Occasion­ally I’ve gotten in over my head (once I wound up with hypothermia while wearing cotton in a ...

“Those who see the Lord shall not lack any good thing.” — Psalm 34:10 Those might be difficult words to hold onto when you’ve been praying for a long time and can’t see things getting better, or ...