Category: Social Justice
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Living Between Worlds: My Journey as a Palestinian in the USA
By Mohammed X. Moving from Nablus, Palestine, to the United States wasn’t just a change of place, it was stepping into an entirely different world, one filled with its own challenges, fears, and contradictions. Living between these worlds means constantly trying to belong while carrying the weight of where I come from. Sometimes, it feels…
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The Olive Season in Palestine 2025: Harvest Under Siege
By Usama Nicola, Bethlehem, Palestine, October 2025 In Bethlehem, as in most Palestinian villages, the olive season is a significant social and cultural occasion. I grew up experiencing the harvest season with my family and cousins. Those were days filled with work and laughter; we would gather under the shade of the trees, eat homemade…
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Call for Pastors to Break the Silence About Palestine
By Lani Lanchester A call for congregants to urge pastors and pulpits to break their silence on Palestine and stand with the oppressed. In the Book of Esther, a decree is signed for genocide, Haman convinces King Xerxes that a certain people are “different,” their customs strange, their loyalty questionable. The solution, he says, is…
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Book Review: The Land of Christ: A Palestinian Cry, By Yohanna Katanacho
By Lani Lanchester What does it mean to confess Christ in the land where he was born, crucified, and raised? In The Land of Christ: A Palestinian Cry, Rev. Dr. Yohanna Katanacho, theologian and Academic Dean at Nazareth Evangelical College, answers with honesty, courage, and hope. This is not a detached academic study of “Holy…
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Starvation, Displacement, and Destruction: The Tragedy of Gaza
By Usama Nicola, Bethlehem, Palestine, September 2025 The ongoing catastrophe in Gaza is not merely a conflict but a genocide devastating the Palestinian people. Since hostilities sharply escalated on October 7, 2023, Gaza has experienced the displacement of two million people. Over 65,174 martyrs have been recorded in hospitals, with a total of 166,071 injured…
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Gandhi the Christ-follower
Gandhi was inspired by Leo Tolstoy’s The Kingdom of God is Within You, which is a book that I am currently translating from Russian into English. I’m also working to annotate it. In it, Tolstoy says that the Christianity of Christ is different from the Christianity of the empire he was living in–the Russian Empire.…
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No Neutrality in Christianity
By Lani Lanchester The morning of the Flour Massacre, February 29, 2024, I sat in my kitchen with tears streaming down my face. In my mind’s eye, I saw myself hauling sacks of flour from my pantry, ripping tem open on the pavement outside church, and pouring red paint through the white, so every worshipper…
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Hearts Still Beating for Justice
By Usama Nicola, Bethlehem, Palestine, August 2025 Here in Palestine, we feel the weight of the madness every day. The news is not something distant for us, it is our streets, our homes, our neighbors’ tears. Each morning, we wake to the echo of uncertainty, and each night we lie down with the heavy knowledge…
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Prayer and Justice in the Midst of Chaos
By Usama Nicola, Bethlehem, Palestine, August 2025 Despite all the difficult and complex circumstances surrounding us, despite the injustice, the grief, the fear that sometimes tries to overwhelm our daily life, I carry within me a quiet yet powerful conviction: that my family and I are protected. This is not a protection rooted in physical…
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