Upon our return home from the Middle East, several news outlets expressed interest in speaking with some students from the trip about our experience — particularly in light of the US Embassy opening in Jerusalem just days after we left. A few days later, I had the privilege of speaking about our adventures and what we experienced to three different news outlets.

• • Richmond Times-Dispatch: Union Presbyterian Seminary group returns days before bloodshed in Gaza: ‘We were over there at a particularly tense and volatile time’
  • WRIC (ABC affiliate): Local students describe experience after return trip from Jerusalem
  • NBC12: Students describe “sense of hopelessness” in the Middle East during tense protests

You can read more about our travel seminar with these daily reflections we each wrote while in Jordan and the Holy Land (scroll to the end).