“Staying quiet in this moment would be a stain upon our souls and would deepen our complicity,” says Michael Curry, Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church.
March for Israel organizers claim to march against antisemitism but are embracing some of the most influential antisemitic Christian figures due to their support for Israel.
There is tremendous blame to go around for the ongoing violence and bloodshed in occupied Palestine. We must begin to acknowledge it.
Eric Maddox from the Latitude Adjustment Podcast talks to Rev. Dr. Don Wagner about the role Christian Zionism plays in the persecution of Palestinians.
Mitri Raheb’s latest book is a provocative examination of how the Bible has been used to support Israeli settler colonialism. “The land of Palestine is colonized by the use of military hardware that is justified by theological software,” he writes.
If one wonders how the nickels, dimes, and dollars collected in churches across the U.S. shape politics in Congress and Israel, director Maya Zinshtein’s film, ‘Til Kingdom Come, is required viewing.
Although unable to find evidence of antisemitism, a Church of England tribunal banned Rev. Dr. Stephen Sizer, a noted critic of Christian Zionism, from clergy activities for 12 years.
Today we are witness to what can only be described as the unstoppable momentum of church opposition to Israel’s program of discrimination, dispossession, and ethnic cleansing. Together with the BDS call, the Kairos call from Palestinian churches has awakened the global church to the urgency of the Palestinian plight and to the theological imperative to act.
Leaders of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) issued a Pastoral Letter this week opposing Christian Zionism and saying “Israeli policies and practices that discriminate against Palestinians—Christians and Muslims alike—are consistent with the international definition of the crime of apartheid.”
Young evangelicals remain to be convinced of Christian Zionism. And they very well may not be.