Sacred Communication/Journey 2018

I chose to look up Jerusalem as a sacred place. I was not raised in a religion but know that this city is important to many people around the world and wanted to learn more about it. What I have gathered, is that Jerusalem is a city located in current day Israel and is valued by Jews, Christians, and Israelis.  There have many many wars and fights over this territory. King David conquered the city in 1000 B.C. to make it the capital of a Jewish kingdom and his son, Solomon, built the first holy temple there 40 years later. In 586 B.C. it was overthrown by the Babylonians and the Jews were exiled. For many years after that, different groups continued to fight over the land. During this time, the temple was  destroyed and rebuilt twice, Jesus was crucified in Jerusalem in 30 A.D., an Islamic prophet named Muhammad died and ascended to heaven in 632 A.D., and European Christians began to pilgrim in the 1st century A.D. which ended in crusaders occupying the city and declaring it ...

Welcome to the Fall 2018 Sacred Communication/Journey blog page. As I have done with this post, enter your name and a subject for the title of each post. Blog entries will be considered informal writing assignments and as such will be graded more in relation to content than style. Blog entries will contain questions and answers to questions, as well as reflections that relate to daily classroom discussions, completion of exercises, and reading assignments. Any questions the student has while reading or completing assignments should be written in their blog. Reflections may relate to connections the student makes between discussions in this class and those in other classes, between arguments raised in the readings in this class and those raised in other classes or from informal conversations. Students are encouraged to apply the ideas learned in this class to activities that take place outside of the class. These applications make great reflections. The student should bring qu...