Into the Wilderness

Inscribed "For Jane, with blessings and best wishes! Sarah York 8 December 2002". Into the Wilderness invites the reader into an intimate world of personal revelation, a world in which truth appears unannounced--in a box of Girl Scout cookies, during an overseas phone call, in a Navajo rug. Here are forty reflections--some funny, some rueful, others gently wise--to use for personal contemplation or to share in community gatherings. First published in 1990 as a Unitarian Universalist book of meditations (under the name Sara Moores Campbell), Into the Wilderness continues today to be widely quoted. Three selections are used as readings in the Unitarian Universalist hymnal, Singing the Living Tradition, and others have been set to music or anthologized. Sarah York is an author, spiritual director, and retired minister. In addition to graduating with honors from Wake Forest College (B.A.), Duke University (M.A.T.), and Harvard Divinity School (M.Div), Sarah holds an honorary doctorate from Meadville-Lombard Theological School and a certificate in spiritual direction from the Haden Institute. During her career as a minister, she served as an officer in the Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association, worked on continental projects for the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA), and delivered the sermon for the Service of the Living Tradition at the General Assembly.…