From 
                    the earliest days of the Church, seekers have gone to the 
                    desert and found—in the barren terrain—a richer 
                    relationship with God. Following in this tradition, Renée 
                    Miller, an Episcopal priest who divides her time between the 
                    Arizona desert and Memphis, Tennessee, makes connections between 
                    the physical landscape of the desert and the landscape of 
                    the soul. Using the rhythm of the natural world as a common 
                    thread, Fertile Soil in a Barren Land evokes images 
                    of the desert and links them to the spiritual practices of 
                    the ancient desert fathers and mothers. 
                     
                    For those whose journeys take them to the desert—and 
                    those who live far away from it—Fertile Soil in 
                    a Barren Land offers ways to find meaning and richness 
                    in their lives.  
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                    Renée Miller is an Episcopal priest who splits 
                    her time between her apartment in California and her condo 
                    in downtown Memphis. She calls herself a “desert spirit,” 
                    and finds the desert provides her with the expanse to be enveloped 
                    in the Divine Presence.
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