Way of the Sensei
Every Sunday morning, before church, I go running with my youngest son along the paths winding through the University of Illinois Arboretum. Along the...
A Tale of Two Tombs
Our tour group gathered beneath a canopy at the Garden Tomb in Jerusalem, listening to our guide on a beautiful, shirt-sleeve day. To one...
Ordinary Objects, Extraordinary Stories: Introducing ‘Peterson Pilgrim’ Magazine
A letter that helped to convict a Nazi war criminal…
A squeegee handle that saved the lives of half a dozen people on 9/11…
A set...
The Jerusalem Model: Legoland for Bible Geeks
“It’s even better than Legoland,” said actor Hugh Bonneville of Downton Abbey fame in the PBS show, Jesus: Countdown to Calvary. Bonneville made the...
Mary Magdalene’s Giant Leap
Hanging in our basement, next to a Lego model of the Apollo 11 lunar lander, is the front page of a Chicago Tribune, dated July...
Gethsemane and the Way of the Press
We reached the Garden of Gethsemane after hiking down a winding, slippery road on the Mount of Olives, east of the Temple walls in...
The Jesus Boat
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...
It’s Not Easy Being Big
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...
At the Gates of Hades
We had just stepped off of the bus at the Dan archaeological site in northern Israel when our guide told us to quickly turn...
Dead Sea Walking
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...
