Jerusalem
In a world without a creator God Who actually cares about us and about what we do, reducing pain becomes the primary thing that matters. And that leads to all sorts of deformities.
The novelist’s sole work of nonfiction.
Accompanied by massive social pathologies that it can neither contain nor reverse, the emerging secular order is itself unsustainable.
The agoranomos.
American society faces a deep crisis of meaning to which the city, and the idea, of Jerusalem has an answer. It is needed by Jews, and as much or more by Christians.
Helena and Izates of Adiabene.
The coins are the clue.
A synagogue twice destroyed.
The New York Times decries attempts to “Judaize” Jerusalem.
The Old City, Hebrew University, and the Western Wall.
Cisterns and the Sea of Solomon.
Along with a rare piece of gold jewelry.
That sentiment, held by British officials in Mandate Palestine, was the origin of the idea that the city should instead be internationalized.
