Today I received an email from my buddy Keas Keasler, who is currently on a study trip in the Middle East with Princeton Seminary. The email directed me to a post he wrote entitled “A Pilgrimage (of many sorts) to Israel.” Reading through Keas’s post, as he was exposed to the stories and lives of [...]
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Many of you probably know this, but I spent the summer of 2005 in Egypt, Palestine and Israel. During that time, I kept a pretty active blog about my experience, but it was separate from pomomusings. I’ve recently imported in all of those entries and fixed all the photos. If you’re into browsing archives, these [...]
For a class on Forgiveness this semester, I put together a movie based on some footage and photos that I took while in Palestine and Israel during the summer of 2005 and used a song from Jonny Baker’s album “Backbone.” Jonny tells a little more about the track “Home” here on his blog. I haven’t [...]
A few weeks ago, a buddy of mine sent me a link to the Face2Face Project website. This is how they describe their project: The Face2Face project is to make portraits of Palestinians and Israelis doing the same job and to post them face to face, in huge formats, in unavoidable places, on the Israeli [...]
It’s been awhile since I’ve written anything related to the Middle East, but to be honest, I haven’t been keeping up to speed. I had the privilege of having lunch with two people a few weeks ago, one who has lived in Palestine, and loved having the opportunity to share stories, experiences and talk about [...]
A contemporary rendering of The Parable of the Wedding Banquet, Matthew 22.1-14 January 30th, 2010 It had been four years since Hamas won the democratic Palestinian elections in 2006, and Ehud Olmert couldn’t believe what was going to happen that evening. Over the past few years, the Palestinian parties of Hamas and Fatah had been [...]
As I was writing about hookahs last month, I began to think about one of the other things that I miss about Palestine. Taybeh Dark. It really is an absolutely amazing beer. We’ve been drinking some good Jamaican Red Stripe around the Walker Cleaveland home recently, which I really like. But…it’s nothing compared to Taybeh [...]
Hookahs. Who would have thought such controversy – from Slice to North to South – would come from a simple photo of a hookah. But that is not the point of this post. This is simply an informational post [check the Wikipedia post for the history of the hookah]. A post in defense of hookahs. [...]
I really don’t know exactly what to say. I find the violent and increasingly aggressive actions of Israel appalling, especially Israel’s outright disregard for Lebanese civilians. I thank Marko for his recent post and thoughts about Israel’s aggressive response [I would link to him but I don't want certain readers of this blog to leave [...]
Over four months ago, I asked readers of this blog to donate money to a group of families whose homes were demolished by the Israeli government in the small village of Al-Khader, outside of Bethlehem. We were able to raise $567.27! I sent the money to the Middle East Fellowship (I was recently able to [...]
