by First Baptist | Sep 27, 2014 | From Jerusalem |
I crossed a couple of things off my “bucket list” this week. For one, I walked the third-mile long, 2,800-year-old Hezekiah’s Tunnel. In the 8th Century B.C. Judahite King Hezekiah prepared for a starvation siege by the Assyrian King Sennacherib by...
by First Baptist | Dec 1, 2014 | From Jerusalem
As the semester at the “Tantur Ecumenical Institute for Theological Studies” was winding down, many of us returned to Bethlehem to experience the launch of the Christmas season in the original Christmas place. I joined the entourage of an American priest,...
by First Baptist | Nov 21, 2014 | From Jerusalem
Seems I am always drawn to friendly Australians. Fr. John Grieg, a gentle giant-of-a-priest (his hands would make two of mine), who is vice-rector of a seminary in the heart of Sydney, joined me for church last Sunday. Then the two of us rode Jerusalem’s...
by First Baptist | Nov 14, 2014 | From Jerusalem
The Northern West Bank City of Nablus (biblical Shechem), with 140 thousand residents, “rocks.” A person wouldn’t expect an Arab backwater municipality, sandwiched in a deep valley between Mt. Ebal to the north and Mt. Gerazim to the south, to be a...
by First Baptist | Nov 6, 2014 | From Jerusalem
An interesting observation, joined to an interesting response, came in a lecture today. An Alabama priest who had drunk deeply of the prevailing political ethos of our institute said, “It’s easy to see who the victims are around here–they’re...
by First Baptist | Sep 19, 2014 | From Jerusalem
Shabbat Shalom! Greetings from Jerusalem and Bethlehem to all of our friends in Greensboro! I’m now completing the second week of my semester at Tantur Ecumenical Institute, and the time is beginning to fly. Sunday I am doing a thing I’ve not done before,...
