Tag: Zionism
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Faith, Land, and Justice
By Usama Nicola, Bethlehem, Palestine Reading the article “The Flaws of Christian Zionism” by Fr. David Neuhaus was both deeply affirming and emotionally challenging. Affirming, because it articulated many of the tensions that Palestinian Christians have lived with for generations; challenging, because it reminded me how often our voices and experiences are absent from global…
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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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Palestine Book Club at Third Place Books Lake Forest Park
A secular book club for people who want to learn about Palestine. This is not Christian affiliated or associated with Christian Minus Christianity. For more information, contact Marti Schmidt at martha@marthalschmidt.net or Diane Paul at dianepaul475@gmail.com. Join us as we discuss books on and about Palestine rarely reviewed in the corporate media and hard to find in bookstores!…
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How do we make Palestinian pain like our own here?
The other day I wrote my friends in Palestine, “even though you’re on the other side of the world, I don’t speak your native language, we are different church denominations, and global powers are making everyone more and more paranoid, your wellbeing makes me more emotional than than things that happen here, which is what…
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White Christian Nationalism Differs from (and Undermines) Religious Commitment
White Christian nationalism moves people away from a commitment to social justice and activism according to the book The Flag and the Cross. According to Gorski and Perry, this is because it is about ethno-traditionalism and “protecting the freedoms of a very narrowly defined ‘us.’” They point out that actual religious commitment expands what Peter…
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