"Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And after He had fasted forty days and ...

Lent is traditionally a time when Christians prepare for the death and resurrection of Jesus. Jesus is said to have gone out into the desert for 40 days where he was fasting, praying, hungry and ...

We tend to use the metaphor of a wilderness ... themselves there gravitated toward the retreat. But so did a lot of mainline folks, who loved the social justice component of their churches but were ...