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The Sacred Parks Project

Featured Articles on the Wilderness in (y)our Backyard!!

"Trails & Travelations"

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Sacred Parks "Ranger" Jessica Dawson has some of her biggest epiphanies while hiking on the trail. For this reason, we have named her featured article series "Trails & Travelations." Here is the second in the series. Read her latest article, entitled "Bad Habits".  (Read last month's article.)

"Wild Mercy"

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"There's a Wildness in God's Mercy" A wording adaption of an old hymn ("There's a Wideness in God's Mercy"), this article series is meant to show how God's wildness can touch our lives in ways that may not always seem merciful: getting "lost" in wilderness, coming face to face with beautiful and dangerous situations, or becoming surrounded by the mysterious. But at the The Sacred Parks Project we believe that wilderness is freeing (and life-giving) like no other part of our heavily scripted and technologically-controlled lives. Welcome to the journey, and the wilderness, of the real. (Read "A Keynote Species")