I am delighted to let you all know that next month we will have a newly published book available, The Casualty of Contempt, in which I have authored a chapter called “When Compassion Goes Awry—Young Christian college students and professionals are abandoning their faith to join social justice causes: An Examination.” Compiled by Pastor Aaron…
By Shelley Neese This has been a very traumatic year for the world and the nation. We have felt it on a very personal level here at The Jerusalem Connection. In January, our long-time videographer and close colleague Bill Lee passed from this world after a terrible car accident. In March, our fearless leader Jim…
On Saturday, September 26th we will gather in Washington, D.C. to worship and pray for our nation. Please join us! Check out the website below. THE RETURN https://thereturn.org/live-event/ Also, we are inviting 120,000 believers around the globe to be part of a time of seeking God from September 19-28 by doing four (4) things: 10 DAYS CONSECRATION CHALLENGE September 19-28 2020 1 – 10…
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…