Palestine

Compassion compels us to remember people journalists choose to forget.

The settler movement has spent decades pushing its views to the mainstream and building its political power.

Students protesting the war in Gaza are asking deep questions about colonialism, antisemitism, and Christian Zionism.

Divergent biblical interpretations and shared histories lead to different answers to the same question: Who are “the oppressed”?

Netanyahu’s poor leadership is a symptom of larger problems that undermine the long-term prospects for peace between the Israelis and Palestinians.

“You’re welcome to take it back home with you,” my Palestinian friend said as I looked at the US-made canister in my hand. “Actually, take all of them.”

The Palestinian theologian challenges Christians to examine their feelings about Israel—and to ask what their faith has to do with these feelings.

Since October 7, many well-intentioned statements have undercut progressive Christians’ moral high ground by invoking antisemitic tropes. It’s an avoidable problem.

Fresh water was scarce even before the war. Now the situation is dire.

At a L’Arche community, I learned something about working and dreaming for peace.

A conversation with theologian Mitri Raheb about current conditions in Palestine, Christian Zionism, Biblical interpretation, and more

Anger can be both healthy and helpful. Rage offers only destruction.

Israelis and Palestinians alike are traumatized people who love the land and deserve to live there in peace.

“How had I not heard these stories and met these people, living 30 years right next to them?” asks Hanan Schlesinger. “How could it be?”

In Luke’s Advent story, Bethlehem’s economy is central—and it looks a lot like Bethlehem’s economy today.