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Global challenges can bring Christians together
Thursday, January 14, 2016
Sebastian Gomes
Next week Christians celebrate the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. The important celebration dates back to 1908 and was inspired by Fr. Paul Wattson and the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement in Graymoor, New York. More advances along the road to unity have taken place over the past century than over the previous 350 […]
Notes from the Holy Land: Goodbyes
Monday, March 17, 2014
Salt + Light Media
By Rev. Dr. Karen Hamilton General Secretary, The Canadian Council of Churches Our final day of journeying together as The Path of Abraham 2014 began with a presentation by Rabbis for Human Rights. The Rabbi who spoke to us was passionate about and committed to peace and human rights for all people […]
Notes from the Holy Land: Aida, Hebron, and the Tomb of the Patriarchs
Friday, March 14, 2014
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By Rev. Dr. Karen Hamilton General Secretary, The Canadian Council of Churches Having been given wonderful breakfasts by our host Palestinian families, including in many cases home-made fig and apricot jams, having been shown their gardens of lemon and almond trees, we reassembled as The Path of Abraham. Our next stop was the Church of […]
Notes from the Holy Land: Nazareth
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
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By The Rev. Dr. Karen Hamilton General Secretary, The Canadian Council of Churches Leaving our Kibbutz hotel, The Path of Abraham bus rolled towards Nazareth and the Church of the Annunciation. This traditional place of the Annunciation to Mary that she would bear the Son of God, Jesus, is decorated with large mosiacs […]
Notes from the Holy Land: Shabbat Shalom!
Monday, March 10, 2014
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By Rev. Dr. Karen Hamilton General Secretary, The Canadian Council of Churches Shabbat Shalom! This morning offered a variety of ways of engaging in faith and land. Some of us went to the Sabbath services of the only English-speaking Conservative synagogue in Jerusalem. A remarkable service, made more remarkable by the fact that […]
Notes from the Holy Land: The one place where praying is forbidden
Monday, March 10, 2014
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by Rev. Dr. Karen Hamilton General Secretary, The Canadian Council of Churches After what seemed like luxurious sleeping-in compared with our early start of yesterday, we began Day 3 of our Path of Abraham study tour by hearing the challenging, heart-wrenching, soul-wrenching story of a Holocaust survivor, Hannah Pick. She knew Anne Frank when […]
Notes from the Holy Land: Yad Vashem, Western Wall, Jaffa Gate
Friday, March 7, 2014
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By Rev. Dr. Karen Hamilton General Secretary, The Canadian Council of Churches It is day two, or rather day one and a half, of The Path of Abraham study tour. We started the day bright and early, well, at least early, as we boarded the bus at 7:00 a.m. to see the three very […]
Notes from the Holy Land: In the Path of Abraham
Thursday, March 6, 2014
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The Reverend Dr. Karen Hamilton is the General Secretary of the Canadian Council of Churches. She will be sending photos and “notes” from the Holy Land where she is co-leading an interfaith study tour called In the Path of Abraham. by The Rev. Dr. Karen Hamilton The Path of Abraham has begun! The flights […]
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