Empty chairs and fresh stickers: A Christian’s journey through Israel’s grief and joy
Israelis are most often described as “resilient,” yet that word feels insufficient. It fails to encapsulate the strength and fortitude required to face a unique form of evil and still choose to celebrate life and joy, even in the most uncertain of circumstances.
The flag Christians are afraid to raise
The tide of antisemitism can be turned, but only by Christians who refuse to stay silent.
The foundation is cracking: Jews and Christians confront America’s Bible crisis
Three weeks before America’s 250th birthday, a question hung over a webinar that drew registrants from Virginia to England to India to Idaho: not what America has been, but what it will become.
Why the “two-state solution” would eliminate Christianity from the Middle East
A “two-state solution” would endanger Israel, but it would also mark the end of Christianity in this part of the world, the region where Jesus was born.
Extending honorary citizenship to today’s Righteous Among the Nations
As Israel repositions itself for the future it is building, the Jewish state must ask itself a question that is long overdue: what can we do to formally recognize the millions of Christian brothers and sisters who have demonstrated tremendous sacrifice, solidarity, and love on behalf of Israel and the Jewish people?
We took Isaiah 61 to Kenya, and 150 people walked free
Ten months ago, I traveled to Kenya to install three water wells for communities in desperate need. One of those wells went into the Bomet Prison. I didn’t know then how significant that visit would turn out to be.
‘Israel, you are not alone’: Christian descendants of Nazis march through Israel during wartime
Even as rockets fell and air raid sirens pierced the Israeli night, more than 200 participants from 11 nations refused to cancel their trips. They had come to march through the streets of Israel; not to protest, not to demand anything, but simply to say: you are not alone.
America is forgetting the Bible. Jews and Christians are fighting back.
The American Bible Society found that only 17 percent of American adults have read the entire Bible, while more than half rarely or never engage with it at all. Among Christians under 35, the numbers are significantly worse. That number has been declining for years, and there is no sign it is turning around.
On historic day, human rights organization honors Jews, Christians, and Jerusalem for shaping modern civilization
The International Observatory on Human Rights (OIDH), based in Portugal, paid tribute yesterday to the historic role Jews and Christians, with their spiritual center in Jerusalem, have played in shaping modern civilization and many of the principles that underpin society today.
The night my wife finally got it
It was the last night of the trip. Shabbat was ending in Efrat, the Jewish community a few minutes from Bethlehem. The Christian participants, all of them in their 20s, were taking turns sharing their thoughts on the trip and how it had changed their lives.