Day 1 at Shiloh and Elsewhere

Welcome back friends! If you're new here, you will find us in the middle of an Israel tour rewind. Unfortunately, our actual tour that was scheduled to launch last Saturday was cancelled due to the war in Israel. Many of us are longing to be there, so we're doing the next best thing: reliving the …

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Route 60: The Biblical Highway

Honestly, I'm a "one-movie-per-year" kinda girl! But, after seeing Golda, the docu-drama about Israel's first and only female Prime Minister who guided Israel through the Yom Kippur War in 1973, I'm headed back to the theater for another Israel-centric movie next week. Former US Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman (who I very much admire), has …

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Our First Tour Day did not Disappoint

The first actual tour day is in the books! As planned, we opted for a bit of a late start, allowing jetlagged travelers an extra hour of sleep. Everyone is doing well and we are already seeing the group come together as "family." After a hearty breakfast, we made our way from our hotel in …

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Samaria or West Bank?

As a Bible reader, you have undoubtedly read about Samaria. You know the account of the Samaritan woman at the well, the good Samaritan, and Shiloh (where the tabernacle once stood). Today, the world knows the area as part of the West Bank. Often, when someone mentions the West Bank, immediate connotations are of terrorism, …

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