Tag: Palestine

  • Dan

    Israel, Palestine, and the Church

    We are human. In our all too “humanness” we tend to pick sides. Christians in Israel and Palestine have struggled in these conflicts. THIS STORY is tough to read and absorb because all that Christians have tried for decades in the arena of reconciliation just keeps getting shoved back into the ground. After decades of work, this is one observation:

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    Lament and mourning in the time of darkness

    Two stories this morning cause my heart to grieve.

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    It’s a complicated world

    Israel having all out war with Hamas is complicated. It’s a complicated place and I have settled into allowing gray areas just be foggy and trying to work out how I should pray and act. This is complication with which I work: Pro IsraeliPro PalestinianPro Peace All of that because I am pro people. In other news, Loren Cunningham, the…

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    Learning to weep with those weep

    I  will never have the whole Middle East thing figured out. (That will disappoint many conservative friends… and that’s just the way it is.) My heart breaks with the news I hear, the posts I read from missionaries, the posts I read from the churches in those areas. Rather than identify with those suffering, we are far too quick to…

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    Israel, Palestine, and an Effort Toward a True Pro-Life Ethic

    I began some thoughts on what it means to have a “pro-life” ethic (HERE), and on that same day the United Nations voted to allow provisional recognition of Palestine as a “state.” This came over the loud objections of the United States and Israel. This is a perfect areas to try and hash out a true “pro-life” ethic. It’s a…

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    People Completely Forgotten

    THIS is injustice. We are too silent on behalf of people who have been pawns for generations.