Jerusalem Hills daily photo

. Psalm 86 for today's PsalmChallenge . Our host, Robert Geiss in Athens, has a wonderful photo today for Verse 16 -- not to be missed...

. Today Israel will welcome 31 of the 33 Chilean miners as they arrive in Jerusalem to begin an 8-day pilgrimage of thanksgiving. The m...

. Will this qualify for Louis la Vache's Sunday Bridges , you think? . Here's the story as told by Aviva Bar-Am in The Jerusalem Po...

. Meet my Australian artist/photographer friend Lucy, the Wildgoose, who tomorrow sets out on the 1,000 kilometer Bibbelmun Track through s...

. Happy Shavuot! The holiday begins tonight. And so does ABC Wednesday R Day. One name of the Shavuot holiday is The Time of the Giving...

. For me it is the day before Pesach, a day for cleaning the cupboards of the last vestiges of bread, cookies, pasta, etc.--anything that ma...

. Where are archaeology volunteers taken on their weekly field trip? To other digs, of course, to be guided around by the director of the ...

. Does being old make graffiti more respectable? So many of you had strong reactions to the post of yesterday that tonight I want to give yo...

. Pope Benedict XVI arrived in the Kingdom of Jordan yesterday, the first stop on his pilgrimage to the Holy Land(s). This morning he is ...

Women in white on a white donkey for the Big Hug of Jerusalem, 2007. White-clad man (pilgrim? clergy?) with walking-stick in the Old City....

Today's ABC Wednesday is brought to you by the letter V. Contributing blogs have various other Vs. Visit them at mrsnesbittsplace . ...

Tarboosh (or fez) on the head of Muslims leading the Armenian clergy in procession to the Holy Sepulchre church. Turban on a pilgrim from ...

. The altar of the Greek Orthodox Chapel of the Raising of the Cross stands over a glassed-in part of the Rock of Calvary. The disc under t...

Palm Sunday afternoon everyone gathers on the Mount of Olives and then begin a joyful procession all the way down to the Old City, entering ...

Happy Palm Sunday to the Christian friends! Last year on Palm Sunday I experienced all the colorful and diverse worship services of the many...

I was out wandering alone down near the spring when these Russian monastics came by and asked me directions to Ein Kerem. Ein Kerem is t...

I've seen a lot of different identifying signs in tourist buses--but never an icon!  This bus was parked down by our local monastery ...