History by the Slice

We reached the Garden of Gethsemane after hiking down a winding, slippery road on the Mount of Olives, east of the Temple walls in...

Two fishermen, brothers Moshe and Yuval Lufan, trudged along the northwest shore of the Sea of Galilee in Israel—the same body of water where...

The life of a giant is no piece of cake. I recently listened to a book about the making of the classic movie, The Princess...

We had just stepped off of the bus at the Dan archaeological site in northern Israel when our guide told us to quickly turn...

Walking into the Dead Sea is like trying to walk across a polished floor in roller skates. When I arrived at the Dead Sea in...

  The only time I ever got motion sickness was in a helicopter as the pilot kept turning it in circles over the coast of...

By Doug Peterson It was pitch dark, it was storming, and Seth Kerlin had no idea if he was heading toward shore or if he...

Publishers Weekly, the main trade magazine for the publishing industry, recently featured a nice review for my latest book, The Call of the Mild....

Hundreds of people were packed into a side chapel in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome when a bearded man with long, red hair suddenly...

I made my way through the narrow passage, following a single-file line of tourists. But if this were the 1600s, I would be following...