Imagine you are rolling through an alleyway filled with people singing religious hymns. They walk past you with tears streaming down their faces because they are so moved to be tracing the footsteps of their savior. To your left is the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, built on the site where tradition says Jesus was…

During my visit to Israel in August 2016, the one place that I really wanted to see and wasn’t able to was Bethlehem. Since that trip, I have vowed that if I ever went back to Israel, I would cross over into Palestine and visit Bethlehem. Bethlehem is only about a twenty minute ride from…