The fact that Jesus’ temptation took place in the wilderness would have evoked powerful if complex associations for any 1st ...

Thanks to Bugs Bunny and his pals, I grew up imagining the desert as a lifeless, foreboding expanse of sand and heat. In some ...

I also knew that loved the desert near his California home — that was where he would go when he and my mother had a weekend away. But I never appreciated what the desert meant to him.