Reading the Fifth Gospel

Why are Presbyterians fixated on Israel? 

I frequently speak to church groups about pilgrimage to the Holy Land. I speak as a pilgrim, but the conversation often turns to politics. Inevitably someone will ask about our denomination’s position on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. There’s no simple answer, so I always give a bit of history.

One day someone commented that we seem “fixated” on the subject, and others nodded in agreement. The word stuck with me.