Originally Published July 6, 2019 If you have time enough to think about your life, I mean really think about it, how much of our lives...

Originally published 12/6/19 It’s so much easier to talk about doing things than actually do them. Take writing a novel, for example. I’d...

Originally published 9/12/19 It seemed the perfect thing to do, to start the New Year, on New Year's day, floating in the Dead Sea. To...

Originally published 8/23/19 Michael and I have returned home to the Jesus House, as it has come to be called, made of pumpkin patch...

Originally published 5/18/19 I was 14 years old in 9th grade. In 1984, we were the oldest at McCracken Junior High School, the most...

Originally published 4/9/19 When there's no Costco, or QT, or neighborhood Publix to shop for groceries or pick up a quick bite, finding,...

Originally published 4/5/19 I have a confession: I had no idea the Sermon on the Mount was so long. I thought it was just the Beatitudes,...

Originally published 4/3/19 The Sea of Galilee is one of the few things that historians, archeologists, theologians and tour guides can...

Originally published 4/27/19 I have always loved being underwater. I know people who don't mind getting in the pool, but who don't want...

Originally published 2/23/19 Even though Israel is literally Ground Zero for people of several faiths, there is still so much doubt...

Originally published 2/19/19 Jesus' mother was such a Jewish mother. Everyone should have a Jewish mother. Not the woman who physically...

Originally published 2/14/19 While the irreverent puppets from Avenue Q sang "The internet is really really great...for porn!", Dr. Don...

Originally published 1/30/19 Mount Carmel was the site of an existential battle between good and evil. Good was the winner, but the good...

Originally published 1/23/19 Caesarea Maritima is just up the road from Joppa and Tel Aviv, about 40 miles. A quick bus ride, but maybe a...

Originally published 1/22/19 I held no expectations of Israel. 2018 had been such a chaotic time of bursty movement that I only worried...

Originally published 1/21/19 There was an Episcopalian on a bus full of Southern Baptists, travelling through the Holy Land. Oh...you...