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Susan's Blog: We Build the Wall to Keep Us Free?

Submitted by sdaughtry on Sun, 08/01/2010 - 12:40pm.

Click here for today's sermon: 'We Build the Wall to Keep Us Free?'

As an added note, check out the libretto from Anais Mitchell's HADESTOWN, esp. the song 'Why We Build the Wall.' Thanks again to Vernon Simmons for reminding me and for sharing the music.

Susan's Blog: Pilgrimage to Israel/Palestine. 'The things that make for peace.'

Submitted by sdaughtry on Tue, 07/27/2010 - 10:30am.
"Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing! See, your house is left to you.

Susan's Blog: Pilgrimage to Israel/Palestine. Conversations in the City: Beyond cowboys and Indians.

Submitted by sdaughtry on Fri, 07/23/2010 - 2:05pm.

Yesterday was a fascinating day. We divided into teams, and explored the four quarters of the Old City of Jerusalem, bringing back reports for the rest of the group at the end of the day. My team spent its morning in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City. You can read about the Jewish Quarter of the Old City here. For me, the best part of the day was the chance to have extended conversations.

Susan's Blog: Pilgrimage to Israel/Palestine. Dome of the Rock, the Western Wall, and more. Do you want to be healed?

Submitted by sdaughtry on Wed, 07/21/2010 - 2:56pm.
2 Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool, called in Hebrew* Beth-zatha,* which has five porticoes. 3In these lay many invalids-blind, lame, and paralysed.* 5One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. 6When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, ‘Do you want to be made well?' John 5:2-6

Today, we ventured into the Old City of Jerusalem for the first time.

Susan's Blog: Pilgrimage to Israel/Palestine. Transfiguration: Mt Tabor to Jericho.

Submitted by sdaughtry on Tue, 07/20/2010 - 9:56am.
We had a very early start this morning, leaving Mount Beatitudes to get to Mt. Tabor as early as possible. Mt. Tabor is the site, according to Roman Catholic scholars, where Jesus' Transfiguration took place.   

Susan's Blog: Pilgrimage to Israel/Palestine. Around the Sea of Galilee. Bread and wine.

Submitted by sdaughtry on Mon, 07/19/2010 - 11:12am.
13Leaving Nazareth, he went and lived in Capernaum, which was by the lake in the area of Zebulun and Naphtali- 14to fulfill what was said through the prophet Isaiah:
 15"Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali,
      the way to the sea, along the Jordan,
      Galilee of the Gentiles-
 16the people living in darkness
      have seen a great light;
   on those living in the land of the shadow of death

Susan's Blog: Pilgrimage to Israel/Palestine. Caesarea Maritima, Nazareth, and Sephoris. Can anything good come out of Nazareth?

Submitted by sdaughtry on Sun, 07/18/2010 - 3:24pm.
"Amira Hass, Israeli peace activist and journalist, a child of Holocaust survivors, who lives in Ramallah in the West Bank, sends weekly dispatches to the Israeli press to tell her fellow Jews the true story of the occupation. Hass credits her mother for showing her the way to her own course of action as a Jew and an Israeli. She tells the story of her mother on a day in 1944, herded from a cattle car into the Bergen-Belsen death camp.

Susan's Blog: Pilgrimage to Israel/Palestine. Masada, Qumran, and the Dead Sea (And it was very, very good, and hot).

Submitted by sdaughtry on Sat, 07/17/2010 - 10:16am.

Today was a 'free' day--and many of us chose to take the optional trip to Masada, Qumran, and the Dead Sea--tourist sites popular in Israel but not a part of our pilgrimage's formal exploration of the Gospel narratives in their geographical context. Masada. It was hot.

Susan's Blog: Pilgrimage to Israel/Palestine. In the beginning, there was a great deal of confusion.

Submitted by sdaughtry on Fri, 07/16/2010 - 10:49am.

"Everything here is very confusing and complicated. So, if you are confused, then you are beginning to understand." -our tour guide

 

We started our first real day of touring today by going to Bethlehem, the city of King David's origin and the site of Jesus' birth. It's just six miles from Jerusalem, but the prospect of crowds of other pilgrims got us on the bus early.

One of the surprising things we've learned so far is how close everything seems to be here. For example, Bethlehem is just six miles from Jerusalem.

Susan's Blog: Pilgrimage to Israel/Palestine. Sounds of the early morning in Jerusalem.

Submitted by sdaughtry on Thu, 07/15/2010 - 8:41am.

Sounds of the very early morning in Jerusalem:Scene from the rooftop of the Holy Land Hotel at dawn
The muezzin.
Roosters.
A car alarm.

 

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