Monthly Archives: July 2010

  So after a long plane ride we made it home.  In fact the plane was early getting into JFK.  I know I’m hope because I spent the last five hours fixing a toilet.  That is something you don’t do … Continue reading →

Today we walked through the old city for the last time, as well as went to the Mount of Olives.  As we looked out over the city it was wonderful to ask the kids about different places and realize that … Continue reading →

Almost two months and it does feel like I’ve been here for a while, and yet there is still so much the I don’t know and don’t understand and so many things I could still do here.  That is not … Continue reading →

When we had the rental care we tried to make it to Ein Kerem, a little town just south-west of Jerusalem.  We drove around for a while and failed.  Yesterday after church we walked up to a cab and said, Ein Kerem please.   Not … Continue reading →

So I’ve not passed along any reading as of late.  I thought these op-eds were worth reading. http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/a-new-party-of-good-tidings-1.303537 http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/he-impersonated-a-human-1.303359 http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/the-vineyard-guards-1.303136

I’m getting to like Bethlehem.  The Church of the Nativity is an interesting place.  A church was built here over the cave where it was believed Jesus was born in the year 326.  Saint Helena, Constantine’s mother commissioned the church to be built and it … Continue reading →

Where is Indiana Jones? Petra is a city established by the Nabataeans around 2200 years ago.  It is an amazing place.  The reason it came into being was the location made it an important trade center between India, and China and … Continue reading →

We are off to Jordan and Petra for a couple of days so no posts until maybe Thursday.  I leave you with this to think about though.  I was talking to some friends tonight about the fact that Saint Georges Episcopal church here … Continue reading →

This morning, for the first time all four of us got to attend church in the old city together, and as it so  happened our friend Ian Alexander was preaching.  As one of his friends said the other day, of … Continue reading →

Caesarea, know to Christians as the place where the Apostle Paul appealed his case to Rome and sailed from the port of Caesarea to Rome to be killed a few years later.  In fact today it is an interesting ruins … Continue reading →