by Tony W. Cartledge | May 23, 2013 | Opinion
A Jewish boy holding a heavy Torah scroll had his bar mitzvah at the Western Wall.A tour group made up mostly of Baptists (along with three Catholic friends) wouldn’t normally pray the Stations of the Cross on the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem, but the study tour...
by Tony W. Cartledge | May 23, 2013 | Opinion
Doron Heiliger describes the “Master Course.”The “Western Wall Tunnels” aren’t seen by a majority of travelers who come to Jerusalem, but our guide was able to secure us an 8:00 a.m. entry to the excavation, which runs the length of the...
by Tony W. Cartledge | May 21, 2013 | Opinion
Visitors can’t resist taking pictures of the upper falls at En Gedi, as Patty McClure demonstrates. I walked today where David walked — and didn’t find him standing there, but I did drink from where he drank, and tried to imagine what it would be...
by Tony W. Cartledge | May 21, 2013 | Opinion
Who would have thought I’d end up posting a blog from a wifi-equipped bus? But the hotel Internet is down, so we do the best we can. The ancient boat (an older picture, when they were still studying it).The church of “Peter’s Primacy,” near...
by Tony W. Cartledge | May 19, 2013 | Opinion
Walking on the cardo of Scythopolis, with the Beth She’an tel in the background.Pentecost Sunday began, for the Campbell University Divinity School study tour group, with a drive down the western shore of the Sea of Galilee as we made our way to Beth...
