Say Trinity
Heather M. Surls wrestles with untamable glory and mystery.
Israel
On Hollowed Ground? The Ambivalent Territoriality of Saint Justin’s Interpretation of the Kingdom of God and Its Implications for Contemporary Christian Theological Reflection
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.
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.
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.
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 protest of Israel’s detention policies, an act of solidarity with four men who continue an ongoing hunger strike calling an end to the unjust detention of Palestinians without […]
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’ after the creation of the State of Israel? It’s a curious phenomenon, right? Anti-Semitic for 2,000 years, but now […]
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 citizenship. Forced off their land in 1948, many returned in the mid-1950’s only to be relocated to a restricted area called the […]
The Jew from Nazareth and the Problem of Whiteness: J. Kameron Carter’s Theological Account of Race
A review of J. Kameron Carter’s recently published book, RACE: A THEOLOGICAL ACCOUNT.
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 generosity.” This is a hard saying, as his family experienced, so difficult that his son could not do it. The question of my lecture […]