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Tag: Israel/Palestine

Peacemaking, Israel/Palestine, and Our “Telos”

Peacemaking, Israel/Palestine, and Our “Telos”

When I was talking with my good friend David Katibah about speaking at Coracle back in September, I never envisioned how timely it would be, and how I would need David’s wisdom and words to heal my grieving heart.  David is the Director of Communications and Christian...

Hope Comes from the Cave

I returned from the Holy Land just 10 days ago from Coracle’s most recent pilgrimage with the Telos Group.  What struck me this time particularly was how central caves are in the story of Christ and the hope of the world.  In Israel where stone is the dominant feature...

SOUNDINGS – What the Holy Land Needs Now

Tomorrow I’ll fly to the Holy Land with another 17 pilgrims for a very unusual experience of Israel and Palestine.  Todd Deatherage of The Telos Group and I will co-lead it, our fourth trip doing this together.   It’ll be my sixth trip following in the literal...

On Pilgrimage… Where will you go?

“…it remains the case that Christianity is not, at its heart, a territorial religion.” -N.T. Wright You are a pilgrim. Whether or not you hold a passport, whether or not you’ve ever left your hometown, you are.  Since people began to write things down, they have...

Reflections of a Returning Pilgrim.

by: Katie Kallam Going into my pilgrimage to the Holy Land, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. I knew that I would encounter holy places, sites where Jesus walked, where he lived and died, but I knew very little about the modern Israeli/Palestinian conflict. I...

Easter Monday Devotional

By John G. Gardner, Coracle Fellow ’17 NOTES FROM A PILGRIMAGE Several weeks ago, I had the privilege to be part of a pilgrimage jointly led by Telos and Coracle to Israel and Palestine.  Rather than only visiting the holy sites connected with Jesus’ life, we...

Breaking the Cycle

by Sharon Hoeck, Telos Group Office Manager At the beginning of last month, we gathered with many of you to talk about disrupting the status quo of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. What does it look like to try to understand a reality that can be described by...

Done Watching : Do It

At a smaller breakfast this morning sponsored by World Relief, Lynne Hybels shared her story of her own transformation.  In her words, if you’d told her ten years ago she’d be deep in the work of working for peace in Israel/Palestine and offering hope to the women of...