Sacred Territory

A True Story of Poverty, Prison, Prosperity, and the Discovery of Inner Peace

What if the life you were given isn’t the life you have to keep?

At eleven years old, Bill Riggs was barefoot and riding a stolen bicycle down a Texas highway, trying to escape a childhood shaped by poverty and instability. He could not have known where that road would...

Every life eventually reaches a point where noise stops feeling normal.

For many people, the early years of adulthood are spent navigating conflict, expectations, obligations, and the constant pressure to respond to everything and everyone. Over time, however, something begins to change. The arguments that once felt necessary begin to feel...

A branch can remain green for a while after it has been severed. But appearance is not life.

Elias Vale has built his career studying the decline and death of living things. A respected natural historian, he trusts evidence, reason, and what can be measured—and has little patience for the religious traditions surrounding the ancient Tree that...

What if some of the things weighing on you today are the very things you once prayed to receive?

Daniel Mercer is tired.

The house always needs something repaired. The truck needs maintenance. Work follows him home. His teenage son needs guidance, his grown daughter still calls for advice, his aging mother increasingly needs his help, and even a...

What if the weight wearing you down today actually belongs to tomorrow?

We worry about conversations that have not happened, problems that have not arrived, decisions other people have not made, and outcomes we cannot control. At the same time, we replay yesterday—what we should have said, what we wish we had done differently, and circumstances...

A serious diagnosis can divide life into before and after. Aging can quietly take away abilities once taken for granted. Caregiving can exhaust even the most devoted spouse or family member. Grief can begin before death arrives and continue long after everyone else has returned to ordinary life. In those seasons, faith may no longer look or feel...

What happens to faith when Sunday morning finds you hundreds of miles from home?

For truck drivers, RV travelers, military personnel, traveling workers, caregivers, and countless others, life does not always cooperate with a church schedule. Sometimes worship happens far from a familiar congregation. Sometimes prayer happens behind a steering...

What if salvation is about more than being forgiven, escaping judgment, or knowing where you will spend eternity? What if Christ reconciled you to God so that you could actually live in fellowship with Him now?

In Where God Walks: Reconciliation, Fellowship, and the Life We Were Created to Live, Bill Riggs explores one of the great themes running...