Recently, I visited Washington D.C. to see sites celebrating the U.S.A.’s 250th birthday, and explored the Museum of the Bible. Amidst exhibits detailing the Bible’s 2,000-year history and Dead Sea Scroll fragments, the 1st-century “Jesus boat” stood out. Discovered by farmers in the Sea of Galilee during a 1986 drought, archeologists preserved this ancient 27x7.5-foot vessel. A model and fragments of this typical fishing boat offered a compellin