No Christian pilgrimage is complete without a tour of Jordan. And no tour of this ‘other holy land’ is complete without walking where Jesus walked to the place where John the Baptist helped initiate Christ’s ministry - Bethany Beyond the Jordan. A now muddy, oily creek that separates Israel from Jordan, while uniting the hearts of Believers for decades - as reflected in some of the following blog posts by the posts of pilgrims visiting its banks:
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I have done many crazy things - but I would have to rate swimming in the dead sea as one of my highlights … I have seen on TV when I was a kid, people reading books as they float in the Dead Sea … but its crazy, you float so high in the water that one can easily sit there and read a book
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Posted in Day 2 - Decapolis on Mar 17th, 2008
Jerash (Arabic:محافظة جرش) is considered one of the most important cities of the Roman Decapolis - as well as one of the best preserved. I should know, I have the pictures to prove it!
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Posted in Day 1 - press panel on Dec 7th, 2007
Founded by a Prince and based in Amman, Jordan, Royal Institute for Interfaith-Studies seeks to foster religious and cultural dialogue between Islam and Christianity - so writes Micahel Ireland, chief correspondent for the ASSIST News Service.
AMMAN, JORDAN (ANS) — Two representatives of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies recently addressed questions relating to Human Rights, [...]
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Posted in Day 1 - press panel on Nov 28th, 2007
The international community must increase its humanitarian assistance to Iraqis displaced by the ongoing U.S.-backed war, a group of Jordanian religious and human rights leaders told a visiting delegation of U.S. Christian journalists here Nov. 4.
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Posted in Day 4 - Petra on Nov 22nd, 2007
What do you get after a 1 hour, 850+ stair climb up a mountain? If you’re at Petra, you get a breathtaking picture (and YouTube Video) of a 154×158 foot structure carved entirely out of the mountain side known as the Monastery.
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Now located on the border of Jordan and Israel, we lost quite a bit of daylight before being allowed down by the river because the soldiers whose job it was to escort us did not have a direct command from their lieutenant, even though the general in charge of the area had already given the green light. It sounds dicey, but actually it is how peace and harmony are insured.
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Described as ‘Vast and echoing and god-like’ by T.E. Lawrence in his famed 7 Pillars of Wisdom, rarely does a visitor leave unawed and uninspired by this moonscape. In fact the only regret of this writer is that he did not have enough time to spend the night in this “magically haunted [2]” moonscape - vowing to come back one day with his family to take a 2 day camel caravan to fully drink in its arid beauty.
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Posted in Day 7 - the Dead Sea on Nov 10th, 2007
How about a video of me holding a 20lb rock - unsuccessfully trying to sink myself in the ultra-buoyant dead sea? Hopefully that will be entertaining and educational enough to hold everyone off until I arrive back home sometime late tomorrow night.
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Posted in Day 4 - Petra on Nov 10th, 2007
Two days ago I was standing alone on the steps of the Treasury at Petra. The images still awe me, more so this 2nd visit than the 1st. Below is a brief description along with 3 YouTube videos explaining why.
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