o Haifa, Acre, Capernaum, and Nazareth: the greener country of Galilee. We’ll be looking at Baha’i, Jewish, Muslim, and especially Christian places–more trees than rivers, once again–before returning to Jerusalem for the confluence of Western and Eastern Christian Holy Week and Passover.
We will be taking a course together here at St. George’s Anglican College in mostly-Arab East Jerusalem called Easter Fire, in honor of the new flame kindled on the vigil celebrating Jesus’ resurrection from the dead. We’ll be retracing his steps and those of his Apostles 2000 years ago when the Western Wall still stood as a majestic foundation of worship of the God whose Oneness seems way too hard for us mortals to imitate. It’s a wall of support and strength, a foundation wall mostly buried underground.
Lynnell took today’s last photo a few days ago. It’s a poster on the Palestinian side of a much less holy western wall, the separation wall in Bethlehem: