Palestinian Christian Bible Scholar, Yohanna Katanacho, spoke at Catalyst Live, Reading, UK 2013. Today is the 1948 anniversary of Israeli independence and the Palestinian nakba (catastrophe). Loving enemies is still the best way to make friends. Pray for Israelis and the Palestinians. Source: Love Your Enemies
J. John interviewing the brilliant Tom Wright, asks a question from the audience (the Youtube video can be viewed at the end of the post): [Warning: Long sentence alert]! Question: "How do you understand the specific scriptures concerning God's promises to the Jewish people today and also concerning the actual land of Israel?" Tom... Continue Reading →
It is, if I may be frank, quite pathetic that the spurious charge of a myth should so perpetuate itself. In fact, it is nothing other than Girardian scapegoating on an industrial scale. If you can convince a person or group that another person or group is somehow less than deserving, less human, less, just... Continue Reading →
How would you feel if: You were Welsh, and you lived in Wales, and the English built a wall between England and Wales? And if: the English built a wall actually into Wales, dividing up villages and farms, and stopped you from going to England, even to a nearby hospital? And then: built English towns... Continue Reading →
"The Anglo-American Protestant tradition of Judeo-centric prophecy interpretation was from its inception a political theology. The tradition openly constructed friends (Jews) as well as enemies (Muslims and Roman Catholics), while cultivating occidentocentric discources that discounted Eastern Christians. These constructions are manifested in contemporary discourses surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict which cast Jews within eschatological dramas while... Continue Reading →
Zionism Unsettled produced by Israel/Palestine Mission Network of the Presbyterian Church (USA) (website here), released one year ago in January 2014, is a great resource for Churches working towards a more healthy and hopeful understanding of the terrible situation between Israelis and Palestinians. PDF flyer here. One blogger, a Rabbi no less, Brant Rosen, calls... Continue Reading →
Christian Zionism says "This is my land, we're staying put!" Jesus says, "Go in all the world and make disciples." Christian Zionism says "Abraham is our father!" Jesus says "If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing the works Abraham did." Christian Zionism says "We must help rebuild the Temple." Jesus says, "My body... Continue Reading →
Palestinian Christian Bible Scholar, Yohanna Katanacho, spoke at Catalyst Live, Reading, UK 2013. Today is the 1948 anniversary of Israeli independence and the Palestinian nakba (catastrophe). Loving enemies is still the best way to make friends. Pray for Israelis and the Palestinians. http://vimeo.com/81400326
May 15th is the anniversary of what the Palestinian people (Muslim, Christian, Other), call 'Al Nakba' meaning 'The Catastrophe'. The day in 1948 when Israelis declared independence before systematically and brutally removing indigenous people from their ancestral land, beginning what we know as today, sixty-six years later, as 'The Israeli-Palestine Conflict'. Below is a sermon... Continue Reading →
May 15th is the anniversary of what the Palestinian people (Muslim, Christian, Other), call 'Al Nakba' meaning 'The Catastrophe'. The day in 1948 when Israelis declared independence before systematically and brutally removing indigenous people from their ancestral land, over 500 towns and villages depopulated, left in ruins or wiped off the map, beginning what we... Continue Reading →
Gralefrit Theology 