In Search of Paradise and more recently Aflame: Learning from Silence, reflects on the passing of Pope Francis and the ...

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — On a quiet summer evening in June 1990, Pico Iyer sat in his family home in Santa Barbara, California, when suddenly, he was surrounded by walls of flames five stories high.

Such ideas may well have resonated with Pico Iyer during and after a devastating wildfire in July 1990 when his house in ...

(RNS) — Pico Iyer is no stranger to the disaster now visiting residents of Los Angeles. In 1990, a wildfire burned down his family home in Southern California and everything inside. In his ...