Tag: Mitri Raheb
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Decolonizing Palestine: The Land, The People, The Bible
Mitri Raheb is one of my favorite theologians. I came across his work after reading a book by Philip Jenkins called The New Faces of Global Christianity that was basically racist. Written in the early 2000’s in the wake of 9/11 it argues, among other things, that Muslims are all fundamentalists. Eager to purify my
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Faith in the Face of Empire, Part 2
I think that the second part of this book by Mitri Raheb (2014) is most valuable for its explanation of what the Kairos Palestine document calls creative resistance. It is called creative resistance because calling something non-violent resistance in a Palestinian sense seems to imply that Palestinians are by default violent. This is a serious
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