Palestine

Faith Matters

Anxious in Palestine

Apr 05, 2012 by M. Craig Barnes

Palestinian parents don’t fret about drugs or drunk drivers. They worry that the Israeli soldiers will use their M-16s.

Features

Adopt a settlement

Christian Zionists and the West Bank

Dec 26, 2011 by Elizabeth Phillips

At American synagogues, Israeli settlement leader Ron Nachman gets a lot of questions. At churches he gets big checks.

Books

A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jesus

Reading the Gospels on the Ground

by Bruce N. Fisk

Gospel journey

Dec 02, 2011 by J. Nelson Kraybill

With his imagination in overdrive, Bruce Fisk has created a fictional character to guide readers through the Holy Land and the thickets of New Testament scholarship.

Editor's Desk

Tough conversations

Sep 07, 2011 by John M. Buchanan

It is difficult for Jews to talk about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It's also difficult for Christians to talk about it with Jews.

Impressions

Palestinian bantustans

Dec 15, 1999 by James M. Wall

Palestinians recognize the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks for what they are: the mopping-up process following a power struggle that Israel won. The spoils of victory are evident in the satellite photographs Jad Isaac recently projected for a group of visiting journalists.

Features

Manipulated protest

Mosque dispute in Nazareth

Dec 22, 1999 by Alain Epp Weaver

For two November days, pilgrims were turned away from major Christian shrines throughout Palestine-Israel. Church doors were closed to protest Israel's decision to allow construction of a mosque next to the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth.

Cover Story

Set apart

The Haredim in Israel

Dec 13, 2010 by Mordechai Beck

No week passes in Israel without an article being published—usually negative in tone—about the Haredi community.

Features

Land battle

Settlements and Middle East peace

Oct 18, 2010 by Lara Friedman

Attacks on Israelis inside or emanating from the West Bank are now almost nonexistent. Peace efforts are focused instead on settlements—because the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a conflict over land.

Books

The Origins of Christian Zionism

Lord Shaftesbury and Evangelical Support for a Jewish Homeland

By Donald M. Lewis

Zeal for Zion

Christians, Jews, and the Idea of the Promised Land

By Shalom Goldman

Evangelicals and Israel

The Story of American Christian Zionism

By Stephen Spector

Mapmakers for God

Sep 21, 2010 by Matthew Avery Sutton

Three new books give fresh insights into the complicated history of evangelical Zionism. Together they present a compelling argument that the founding fathers of the modern state of Israel were not just Theodor Herzl and his Zionist Congress, but American and British evangelicals who exercised tremendous political and economic power in the 19th century—power that modern-day evangelicals like Hagee and his allies can only dream of.

Impressions

The polar bear’s perspective

May 24, 2000 by James M. Wall

Family members gather in a Liverpool hotel ballroom to learn the fate of loved ones who were traveling on the Titanic. Everyone is frantically seeking information on survivors. Suddenly an old polar bear walks into the room. He looks sad, and there is a tear in his eye as he asks, “Have you got any news of the iceberg? My family were on it. Have you got any news of the iceberg?