Missing the Good Samaritan on the Present-Day Road to Jericho
By Valerie Bailey | June 13th, 2008 | Category: Issue 0, On Religious Life | 1 Comment »This year, while serving as a chaperone for college students on a nearly two-week trip to the Holy Land, our Palestinian tour guide pointed out that our bus was now on the Road to Jericho. I sat up in shock; the Jericho Road had now become real and covered in asphalt. I looked at the road, stunned at how much it looked like the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Except, in the middle of the road was a huge concrete wall that seemed to stretch almost ten stories into the sky.
