by Minga Claggett-Borne | Dec 7, 2012 | Israel-Palestine 2012
We have arrived after such a long trip, exhausting security at airports. A huge thank you to all those who read, wrote and held us in prayer for our 14 days in Israel/Palestine. With so much war and UN drama, all prayers were needed. Your love buoyed our trip in...
by Minga Claggett-Borne | Dec 4, 2012 | Israel-Palestine 2012
On Sunday Jonathan and I had a long rest and got up to worship at the Ramallah Friends meetinghouse. The Ramallah Meeting is small, with thick stone walls and arched windows.I soaked my dusty soul in the coolness and quiet. It was built in 1940 exactly between two...
by Minga Claggett-Borne | Dec 2, 2012 | Israel-Palestine 2012
Hani Abu Hikal is a Hebron native whose family has lived on the hillside, Tel Remieda, for hundreds of years. He was an angry youth when the Israeli policies divided the city and humiliated him and his friends. He went to jail for 20 months at 17 years old because he...
by Minga Claggett-Borne | Nov 30, 2012 | Israel-Palestine 2012
Jerusalem, a holy city to so many. On one hand it’s amazing that after invasions of Romans, Syrians, Egyptians, crusaders, Ottomans, English and Jordanians that all want to claim the hill as their own. How amazing that they’ve found a way to live in their...
by Minga Claggett-Borne | Nov 23, 2012 | Israel-Palestine 2012
Our group met with a one of the founders of Sabeel, a Palestinian Christian group committed to nonviolence and standing with the suffering of the Palestinian people. Sabeel means “the way.” In ancient times in the arid Palestinian land, a traveler would find an urn of...
