Tent of Nations Court Case and Museum of the Palestinian People
As we await Christ’s birth in the church year, there is a family farm and peace community outside of Bethlehem, Palestine called Tent of Nations, much beloved for their daily living into their now world famous motto “we refuse to be enemies.” Some in the Church of the Saviour community have visited Tent of Nations […]
How to Love God
The words “Hear, O Israel, the Lord is God, the Lord is One” have been familiar to me for longer than I can remember. Of course, I tend to remember them better in the original Hebrew that I learned to chant as soon as I could talk, and Jesus seems to have learned a different […]
Blessing – Sep. 3, 2021
“Within each struggle, there is a blessing waiting to happen. The biblical passage of Jacob struggling with a messenger of God is a symbolic story of our own struggle with the unwanted parts of our life. Allduring the long night (the darkness), Jacob wrestles with this unknown figure (our unwanted lifeexperiences). Jacob is wounded in […]
Names and Stories
When I lived in Israel in the early 1970s, I visited a lake in the northern part of the country that Israelis call Kinneret. It is called that, I was told, because its roughly triangular shape resembles a kinnor, a certain kind of hand-held harp mentioned many times in scripture. Some linguists say this is […]
