PROPHETS OF PEACE

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The Desert Fathers

During the last few weeks, I had the opportunity to spend some time with the Bedouin’s living in the land of Israel. Israel’s Bedouin citizens – a minority within the Arab minority are a fascinating group of nomadic Arab’s that live in tents and other basic housing all throughout Israel and the Middle East. My [...]

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Faces of The Old City

Jerusalem is unlike any city in the world. Walking through this city you are struck immediately by the influence that Judaism, Islam and Christianity had and is having in both the shaping of the city and those that dwell here. One realizes how rare it is that people with such stark distinctions can dwell in moderate [...]

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Aaronic Blessing (Western Wall, Jerusalem)

October 5th, 2009, the Jewish people gathered at the Western Wall in prayer and celebration as the Aaronic Blessing was spoken over all the people that came to take part in the corporate prayer. The time of Sukkot often referred to as the Feast of Tabernacles takes place during the fall feasts. The blessing that [...]

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East Of The Yarden

During of my recent trips into the middle east, I got to sit down with an “honor killing” survivor. The top photograph in this section is a woman who a few months earlier was not expected to live through an attempt on her life. She had left her husband and went to her father’s house [...]

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Crow Reservation

In the summer of 08, I had the opportunity to spend some time on the Crow reservation with an organization that was involved in setting up a foster home on the reservation. During the experience, I had a chance to see first hand what reservation life is like within the Native American culture. Now contained [...]

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Haiti

I have recently just returned from Haiti. It was an extremely difficult place to be. What is most surprising is that the poverty this country is facing is in some ways more intense than many of the places in Africa I have traveled. It is the poorest country in the western hemisphere and what shocks [...]