Notes from the Holy Land: Shabbat Shalom!

Monday, March 10, 2014

Salt + Light Media

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 […]

The music of Within Your Gates: Future of Forestry

Saturday, November 27, 2010

Kris Dmytrenko

If you travel here, you will feel it all, the brightest and the darkest. The lyrics of “Traveler’s Song” by Future of Forestry were not written with the Holy Land in mind, but few places in the world are saturated with such extremes of joy and pain. Jerusalem, in particular, is a sacred, resplendent city […]

Overcoming Christian division in the Holy Land

Friday, March 12, 2010

Kris Dmytrenko

The Christian Churches in the Holy Land are often characterized as intractably, scandalously divided. The impression is not without reason, as evidenced by the embarrassing 2008 skirmishes between Greek Orthodox and Armenian Orthodox monks in Jerusalem’s Holy Sepulchre—the church recognized as the site of Calvary and Jesus’ empty tomb. It would be wrong, however, to […]