Darryl Lloyd of Hood River took this photo Saturday, Aug. 1, from the top of Hidden Lake Peak (6,900 feet) in the North Cascades of Washington. The view is toward the east and the fire appears to be ...

LAKE CHELAN, Wash. – As wildfires burned toward Holden Village, a religious retreat center at the edge of the North Cascades wilderness, Lutherans dropped to their knees and prayed. Much of the West ...

My first glimpse of Holden Village was the tailings. I was 10, and my family was nearing the end of a 32-mile backpacking trip to Holden. Soon after leaving Hart Lake, about 4 miles up Railroad Creek ...

"Religious commitments are no longer taken for granted as part of North American people's lives," says Scott Kershner of Holden Village, a Lutheran retreat center in Washington State. "So space opens ...