Back in November 2023, shortly after the Israel/Hamas war began, I traveled to Israel and the West Bank with Mike Cosper of Christianity Today. The main purpose of the trip was recording interviews for Cosper’s podcast Promised Land. My job in that regard was just to occasionally hold a microphone and listen in to make sure it was working, but Mike was generous enough to name me the associate producer for the whole podcast.
I also produced photos and an essay for the Christianity Today print magazine. The essay, Empty Streets to the Empty Grave shares the experience of visiting the Church of the Holy Sepulcher when virtually no tourists were in Jerusalem due to the war. Working with their art director, Jared Boggess, was great. He really helped shape both the image selections and the text for the better. I had worked with Jared previously through showing some of his work as Fishcoin Press at Sojourn Arts.
