Near Bethlehem Bible College, where I was teaching a year ago, the “separation wall” is thick with graffiti registering anger, frustration, and yearning. Almost daily I walked down Star Street in Bethlehem to the Church of the Nativity to pray for justice and peace in a land with so much suffering. Visits to the manger…
Month: December 2023
(Corrected) Christmas is canceled in Bethlehem this year
(For those of you who get to this blog by an email notice, I am resending this story. The link in the first version I sent out did not work. Sorry!) Christmas is canceled in Bethlehem this year. Take a few minutes to hear Palestinian Christian voices from Bethlehem and Jerusalem this Advent season. During…
Christmas is cancelled in Bethlehem this year
Christmas is canceled in Bethlehem this year. Normally that would sound like the beginning of a joke, but this year it is deadly serious. During the academic year 2022-23 I had the privilege of being a visiting scholar at Bethlehem Bible College where Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac is academic dean. He also is the senior…
Holy Lands Peace Pilgrim 