This is not an educational post, just an update on campus life at Jerusalem University College. The campus is just outside Jerusalem’s old city walls, with the old Protestant Cemetery at the back gate, right by Dormition Abbey and near St. Peter in Gallicantu. (See a map here, the school is not shown on the…
Month: January 2017
Leaving on a Jet Plane
I will be boarding a flight in a couple of hours and heading to Israel to begin a Master’s Degree in Biblical Background at Jerusalem University College. Here is some information on the history of the College and the buildings from their website: Formerly known around the world as the Institute of Holy Land Studies,…
Lions (and tigers, and bears, oh my…)
This past summer, I took an early evening walk on the ranch land surrounding our house. It is a route that I have taken hundreds of times through stands of pines and aspens, huge boulders, and open meadows. I have walked it hundreds of times and seen deer, eagles, rabbits, coyotes, elk, bluebirds, marmots, and…