Final installment in a Christmas series beginning with NW1: After an evening of memories and laughter with family, M & J went to bed. Ms....

Part 7 in a Christmas series beginning with NW1 Waking up in Jericho, Mary and Joseph had the Mountains of Judea to the  South and West...

Part 6 in a Christmas Series beginning with NW1: The sun was barely out when Mary was awakened by the baby’s kicking.  She said her...

**This is part 5 of a series, beginning with Nativity Walk 1: As our young couple and their favorite donkey ambles along, the landscape...

**This is part of a series, beginning with Nativity Walk 1: Walking into town with the sun setting to the right, Mary is itching to take...

**This is part of a series, beginning with Nativity Walk 1: After several hours, M & J approach Salim.  After a meal in town and then a...

**This is part of a series, beginning with Nativity Walk 1: “Joe, did you hear that?” “Hmm mmm..” “Joe – I heard something. Wake up.”...

Go back in time, a couple of millenia with me:  It is the month of Tishri (Sept/Oct), year 3758 of the Hebrew calendar.  200 years ago...

President Trump has recently acknowledged Jerusalem to be the capital of Israel, and promised to move the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to...

Tsoro in Hausa. خوف in Arabic. Peur in French. φόβος in Greek. Miedo in Spanish. डर in Hindi. Takut in Indonesian. 恐れ in Japanese. Timor...

Christ was not known for being critical, but many Christians are. Christ was not characterized by a judgmental attitude, but Christians...

Perhaps I need to re-consider my understanding of the term “Godly.” I suggest this because I have always matched that term to what is...

Jerusalem is a home to Judaism, Christianity, Islam and other religions. The “Holy City” has been an incubator of religious thought and...

Music changes perception. I listen to a lot of music, and lots of types of music, and when I studied in London I would walk through the...

As Mr. Twain pointed out in “Innocents,” every rock, thorn, bush, brick and fragment of masonry in Jerusalem has a story behind it....

Alternative Title: No Room inn the Cab. We started our day by walking through the Moslem cemetery on one side of the city wall to enter...

Yes, that’s a real camel, and yes I’m riding it with no one leading it, on the Mount of Olives, and yes that is really Jerusalem in the...

“The David Hotel” on the Dead Sea. I went down to the workout room at 7 am, only to be told in an ancient, foreign-to-me tongue that it...

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and entrances, and one man in his time plays...

I was awakened this morning by a tweeting sound and looked out the window to view the sunrise over the Sea of Galilee and the hills just...