There is a special account in the Jerusalem Talmud about Elkanah, the father of Samuel, the biblical judge and prophet. In the Talmudic teaching, Elkanah was blessed with being the father of Samuel the anointed because Elkanah pleased God by making regular pilgrimages to the Tabernacle in Shiloh. The Talmud says Elkanah campaigned to bring…
By Shelley Neese— Thursday, May 28th, is the first night of Shavuot. Our friends at the Rogatchi Foundation are offering Jerusalem Connection readers a special chance to win a unique piece of Jewish art if you can answer a piece of Jewish holiday trivia. On Shavuot, Jews celebrate the events that took place on Mount…
By Shelley Neese— On Thursday night, February 27th, I drove three hours to Liberty University to attend the opening of an art exhibit that is very special to all of us here at Jerusalem Connection, especially Jim Hutchens. As many of you know, Jim’s wife, Pat Mercer Hutchens, went home to be with her Savior…
By Ryan Klinker, Liberty University News Service— The Liberty University Art Gallery’s latest exhibit, “The Auschwitz Album Revisited,” displays 40 paintings by the late Christian artist Pat Mercer Hutchens that capture the poignant and unforeseen final moments of life for Jewish victims at one of the Holocaust’s most notorious concentration camps. The Liberty Art Gallery…
By The Rogatchi Foundation—- We are especially glad to make the announcement at the time when two celebrations of good will, kindness and light, Hanukkah and Christmas, coincide this year, thus adding and accumulating yet more positive energy for all of us to benefit from. Rogatchi Foundation Humanist of the Year is awarded annually for…
By Kristen Padilla, Beeson Divinity School— General James M. Hutchens was brought to faith in Jesus Christ while he was an enlisted paratrooper by his Army unit chaplain. And because of that chaplain, General Hutchens not only became a Christian but also felt a call to follow him into military chaplaincy. After leaving the Army…
By Arlene Bridges Samuels The Jerusalem Connection’s founder and President Emeritus James M. Hutchens is a military chaplain who earned two Bronze Stars and the Purple Heart while serving in Vietnam. He joined the army as an enlisted US Army paratrooper ultimately training for the status of an elite High Altitude, Low Open (HALO) parachutist…
By Arlene Bridges Samuels, Jerusalem Connection— The second annual Anglican Theology Conference on September 24-25 provided a feast of intellectual thought, rich biblical insights, and fellowship among 170 attendees from four nations and eleven states spanning the miles from Colorado to Virginia. Organized by Rev. Dr. Gerald McDermott, the A-list of eleven scholars presented cutting-edge…
Dr. and Mrs. Alton W. Baker are honored to announce the introduction of the General James M. Hutchens Military Chaplain Scholarship at the Beeson Divinity School of Samford University, in Birmingham, Alabama. For the last two centuries, military chaplains have been an inextricable and vital component of the United States Armed Forces since being instituted…
Does the Bible really predict a Third Temple? How can a Third Temple be built on the Islamic holy site of the Temple Mount? Theories and speculation about a future Third Temple in Jerusalem are becoming more and more prevalent in our day. There are those who debate the location of the former Temples in…