Deborah Douglas has been a writer, spiritual director, teacher, retreat leader, and conference speaker for more than three decades; she has written extensively on both prayer and pilgrimage for many journals and periodicals. The Pilgrim Life: Finding God Along the Way is a companion volume to her earlier The Praying Life: Seeking God in All Things. She is also the co-author, with her husband David Douglas, of Pilgrims in the Kingdom: Travels in Christian Britain.