Our guide read from a passage I had read hundreds of times but always skipped over: “Jesus said to the crowds and his ...

Author David Shishkoff (left) in Capernaum with Shahar Isaac (center), who plays Jesus' disciple Simon Peter in the ...

NAZARETH, Israel - We climbed the narrow streets of Jesus' boyhood home in Nazareth and looked out from a steep ridge. Did he really walk here? A broad valley winds northeast toward the Sea of Galilee ...

Editor’s note • The Salt Lake Tribune’s senior religion writer, Peggy Fletcher Stack, is on assignment in the Middle East. Besides her deeper reporting, she is sharing shorter daily dispatches. This ...