Nir Arielli’s rigorous history, The Dead Sea, ranges over millennia of the landscape’s paradoxes, conflicts and botanic ...

A trip to Jordan pairs history with adventure, making for a trip of a lifetime. From standing in the River Jordan to riding a ...

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State, is the pope’s special envoy for the Mass of consecration of the Church of the Baptism of Christ, January 10. The site is traditionally believed to ...

There are limits to the theology of geography. Our souls are not physical places; our souls are spiritual realities. But ...

the Jordan River is nobody's idea of peace on Earth. From its rowdy headwaters near the war-scarred slopes of Mount Hermon to the foamy, coffee-colored sludge at the Dead Sea some 200 miles ...

The Jordan River, also known as “The Great Descender,” has a significant drop in elevation from its source to destination.