For the past two weeks, we cast our gaze upon the history of the stretch of land in the Mediterranean known as the Gaza Strip. The Strip has been controlled by Britain, Egypt, Palestine, Israel, and again by Palestine in the last 100 years. Today, […]
Last week we began to look closely at the history of the area of the Mediterranean known as the Gaza Strip. The 140-square-mile stretch of land along the coast between Egypt and Israel has endured decades of protest, military maneuvers, and violence as both Israel […]
As we have looked each week at the pages of our annals of history, we have noticed that it is often difficult to separate the secular pages of history from the sacred pages of history. While we may speak of the separation of church and […]