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Forgiveness as Generosity

Our film began with the father, Mohammed, saying–as means of explanation to his wife for why they were not leaving their house in spite of its occupation by Israeli soldiers–“Forgiveness is...

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The Jew from Nazareth and the Problem of Whiteness: J. Kameron Carter’s...

A review of J. Kameron Carter’s recently published book, RACE: A THEOLOGICAL ACCOUNT.

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What Will It Take to Stop Israel? Truth and Justice

After detailing the factual evidence, Kenneth Surin argues that the demands of truth and justice require Israel’s dispossession of the Palestinian people to be halted.

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There’s Another Country: The Conceptual Geography of the Letter to the Ephesians

Ephesians teaches us how Christian theology can hold geography as neither primary and nonnegotiable nor irrelevant and unspiritual.

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On Hollowed Ground? The Ambivalent Territoriality of Saint Justin’s...

This essay explores the theological ambiguity between the kingdom of God and territorial Israel, both in the context of St. Justin Martyr and of contemporary theological reflection on place.

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Property and Unfreedom in the Negev

On July 24, 2010 I traveled with a group of peacemakers to the Bedouin village of Al-Arakib.  Located just north of Beer-Sheva in the Negev Desert, the Bedouin are indigenous Arabs with Israeli...

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Support Israel Through NASCAR (Hey, Starr and Ellis, there’s hope!)

This is a real gem. America/Israel Racing . . . in a Toyota. Truly ecumenical. To think about what Mr. MacCaull says in the video, did Christians learn that they shouldn’t ‘turn their back on Israel’...

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Israel’s Liturgy of Torture

Over the last week, thousands of Palestinians, Jews, and internationals protested the illegal and inhumane treatment of Palestinian prisoners.  800 Palestinian prisoners declared a one-day fast in...

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Forgiveness as Generosity

Our film began with the father, Mohammed, saying–as means of explanation to his wife for why they were not leaving their house in spite of its occupation by Israeli soldiers–“Forgiveness is...

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The Jew from Nazareth and the Problem of Whiteness: J. Kameron Carter’s...

J. Kameron Carter. Race: A Theological Account. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2008. 504 pages. $28.00 hardcover (Amazon). Click here or on the image to purchase Race from Amazon.com and help...

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Property and Unfreedom in the Negev

On July 24, 2010 I traveled with a group of peacemakers to the Bedouin village of Al-Arakib.  Located just north of Beer-Sheva in the Negev Desert, the Bedouin are indigenous Arabs with Israeli...

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Support Israel Through NASCAR (Hey, Starr and Ellis, there’s hope!)

This is a real gem. America/Israel Racing . . . in a Toyota. Truly ecumenical. To think about what Mr. MacCaull says in the video, did Christians learn that they shouldn’t ‘turn their back on Israel’...

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Israel’s Liturgy of Torture

Over the last week, thousands of Palestinians, Jews, and internationals protested the illegal and inhumane treatment of Palestinian prisoners.  800 Palestinian prisoners declared a one-day fast in...

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What Will It Take to Stop Israel? Truth and Justice

Why would the Palestinians be “valid negotiators” since they do not have a country? Why would they have a country, since theirs has been taken? They have never been given any choice than to surrender...

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There’s Another Country: The Conceptual Geography of the Letter to the Ephesians

Newspaper columnists insist that my country, the United Kingdom, is a Christian country, while their counterparts at different papers rail against our military misadventures in Muslim lands. In parts...

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On Hollowed Ground? The Ambivalent Territoriality of Saint Justin’s...

One of the trends to emerge in recent theological discourse is a renewed focus on Jesus’s proclamation of the kingdom of God. In particular, leading scholars have argued that Jesus’s kingdom vision was...

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Say Trinity

Heather M. Surls wrestles with untamable glory and mystery. The post Say Trinity appeared first on The Other Journal.

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