Quotidian Grace

Our day finished with a trek through the Golan Heights area. We visited an area filled with trenches and bunkers used by the Syrian army in...

The Mount of Transfiguration is in the Golan Heights, and the area belonged to Syria prior to 1967. The ancient site of Caesaria Phillippi i...

Moving on from Tabcha, it was a short ride to Caphernam, the town that was Jesus' home base during his public ministry. And by the way t...

Nazareth is another one of those places where contemporary political and religious strife is evident. More on that in a minute. I was surpr...

We drove down the Mountain of the Beatitudes to the Sea of Galilee and our adventures there are recounted in my First Report from Israel. A...

The second day of the trip began with a visit to the Mount of Beatitudes. There is a church built on the site where it is believed Jesus pre...

Our first day on the bus ended as we ventured to the northern border of Israel with Lebanon. That stop combined a typical tourist attraction...

A recurring theme of our tour was the blending of visits to Christian sites with visits to Roman sites with visits to sites of the history o...

First stop on the trip was Jaffa, also known as Joppa, which is now incorporated into the city of Tel Aviv-Yafo.  Believed to be more than 1...

We are back from our trip to Israel and I'm recovering from jet lag!  The trip was amazing. We're still processing the many special ...