Jordan

The Gospel of John takes care for geography in a way the other Gospels sometimes don’t, and in the first chapter the Evangelist notes precisely where John the Baptist was at work: “in Bethany across the Jordan” (John 1:28). That detail points to a site on the eastern bank of the Jordan River in modern

The Dead Sea sits at the lowest point on the surface of the earth, roughly 1443 feet below sea level, a vast salt lake shimmering at the bottom of the Jordan Rift Valley between the hills of Jordan and the Judean Desert. The water, so saturated with minerals, creates a buoyant effect that keeps people

Inside St. George’s Greek Orthodox Church in the city of Madaba, set into the floor beneath your feet, is a sixth-century Byzantine mosaic that depicts the entire Holy Land in remarkable detail. It was created around 560 AD and is the oldest surviving cartographic image of Jerusalem and the surrounding region. The people who made

On a clear day, the view from the summit of Mount Nebo stretches all the way across the Jordan Valley to Jerusalem. In fact, this is the panorama that Moses looked out upon before his death; knowing God had brought His people to the edge of the Promised Land, Moses consigned himself to never setting

When the narrow canyon of the Siq opens up and the Treasury looms above, most people simply stop walking. It is one of those rare moments where the world simply demands your full attention. Petra is an ancient Nabataean city carved directly into rose-red sandstone cliffs, inhabited since 7000 BC and situated at the crossroads