Because I wanted to read about pilgrimages to the Holy Land, I read Harry Emerson Fosdick’s 1927 work A Pilgrimage to Palestine. This work described his 1923 four-month pilgrimage in… Read more

During my sabbatical, I’ve asked various individuals the question. “If you could stand in front of my students, and if you had only three minutes, what would you say to them?”… Read more

Their names give these two Palestinian women away. Their names are not Palestinian Muslim names like Khadija or Laila, their names show that they are Palestinian Christians. They know anger… Read more

Debbie Weissman is a “hopeful pessimist.” After  hearing her speak at Tantur about Pesach, the Seder, I decided to read her recently published Memoirs of a Hopeful Pessimist: A Life… Read more

On a Sunday night in Jerusalem, I attended the Detroit Methodist Choral group’s performance. The talented choir’s first sung lines, were “I am bound for the land of Promise….” With… Read more

I moved into Ecce Homo to be in the Old City during the latter part of Holy Week. Although I am close to the Tantur group, I wanted to be… Read more

When I’m with the Tantur group, I experience Holy Week through the perspective of Roman Catholics priests and laity. Among the many things I have appreciated, I have appreciated that… Read more

The Israeli Wall, the “security barrier,” or the “apartheid wall,” has been constructed since the Second Intifada in 2000. Although the Israeli government projected a Wall some 440 miles eventually,… Read more

It is unavoidable. The sounds begin as early as 4:20 AM and last until midnight. I constantly hear Jerusalem. I hear the Muslims of Jerusalem. Either the call to prayer… Read more

    A hand reaches out to touch a carving marking one of the Stations of the Cross. My hand feels a branch of the olive tree Pope Paul VI… Read more