Christmas in Jesus’ hometown

In the days before and following Christmas, Nazareth Village puts on a Christmas play.  It is staged in the first century buildings and gives visitors a feel for what it may have looked like at that time.  In this play I have been given the role of the Angel Gabriel.  In the lines that the [...]

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When Elephants Fight

“When elephants fight, it is the grass that gets trampled” says an African proverb.  This saying is often applied to a situation where tensions between political powers result in suffering of the uninvolved communities of people at the grass roots level. Here I am, in Nazareth, in a part of the world where this proverb [...]

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