I spent the month of July on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, participating in the Tantur Ecumenical Institute’s July 2016 Continuing Education Program. The experience was one of the most profound of my life and will take me a good long time to process and reflect upon. For now, some of my favorite pictures captured in the Holy Land will help share this remarkable pilgrimage.
All this he saw,
for one moment breathless and intense,
vivid on the morning sky;
and still, as he looked, he lived;
and still, as he lived, he wondered. (Kenneth Grahame)
Baha’i Garden, Haifa (July 2016)
Aqueduct, Caesarea (July 2016)
The Synagogue. Capernaum where Jesus had his home base (July 2016)
Church of All Nations in Gethsemane, Jerusalem (July 2016)
Candles lit by the faithful, Church of the Holy Sepulchre (July 2016)
Armenian Ladder, Church of the Holy Sepulchre (July 2016)
Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem (July 2016)
Church of the Transfiguration, Mount Tabor (July 2016)
Dominus Flevit, Jerusalem (July 2016)
Morning light at St. Anne’s Church, Jerusalem (July 2016)
Statue of Peter and Jesus, Sea of Galilee (July 2016)
Baptism of Christ, St. George’s Cathedral in Jerusalem (July 2016)
The woman who touched Jesus, Magdala (July 2016)
Masada (July 2016)
Mount of Beatitudes (July 2016)
Garden Tomb, Jerusalem (July 2016)
Qumran (Dead Sea Scrolls) (July 2016)
Dawn on the Sea of Galilee (July 2016)
Sepphoris & Nazareth on the hill (July 2016)
St. George’s Monastery, Wadi Qelt (July 2016)
Wadi Qelt: The Valley of the Shadow of Death (Psalm 23) (July 2016)
Evening Light at Tantur, Jerusalem (July 2016)
Tantur Ecumenical Institute, Jerusalem (July 2016)
Al-Aqsa Mosque, Jerusalem (July 2016)
Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem (July 2016)
Inside the Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem (July 2016)
Sun over the Dome of the Rock (July 2016)
Graffiti on the Separation Wall, Bethehem (July 2016)
on being made well 