This is a really helpful analysis of another component of Western Christian silence... Lost in Orientalism: Arab Christians and the war in Gaza aje.io/5k6rsf via Al Jazeera English

What would I do if I had been alive during slavery in the US? Or the genocide in Rwanda, or the Holocaust in WW2? I've been wondering a lot lately about how something like genocide can become "ambient" to our lives...

On the danger of silence about Gaza... patheos.com/blogs/anxiousb…

Conflating the power of the state with the power of God is idolatry... Sovereignty, the Exception, and the Question of Palestine politicaltheology.com/sovereignty-th…

“We feel betrayed,” Palestinian Pastor Munther Isaac منذر اسحق tells Mehdi Hasan about the lack of support from US evangelicals for Christians in the West Bank. Watch at Zeteo.com

"Praying is no substitute for politics. When we abandon living in the world, when we no longer love the earth, when we ignore the neighbour on the road, prayer is left an empty, make-believe piety. We no longer walk with Jesus - Word made flesh - whatever our orthodox

US policy seems to be: we keep telling Israel not to do terrible counterproductive things but if it decides to do them we support it unconditionally.

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I've resisted sharing my work on this site recently, but I hope this important piece reaches people who otherwise might not see it: Why We Must Talk About Faith and Politics...Especially in Church - A Lesson from History and a Plea dianabutlerbass.substack.com/p/why-we-must-…

Superb article (h/t ⁦GabrielSaidR⁩) Arabic, A Christian Language by Onsi A. Kamel | Articles | First Things firstthings.com/article/2024/0…

We don’t need a seat at the table of the kingdoms of the world. There’s already a feast waiting for us free of domination and exploitation. At Christ’s table. We discipline our bodies, minds and spirits to love our God, our neighbors and our enemies now in anticipation.

Thankful today for the French opening ceremony that reminded the world of a table where God is with us, broken for us. All of us. Amen.

The two opposite possibilities that seem to be the options at this point… a 🧵

Israel's most recent attempt to sabotage a ceasefire came today when it assassinated Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, the primary negotiator in the truce talks. Nothing screams "we want a ceasefire" quite like assassinating the negotiator for said ceasefire proposal.

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That was too loud, Israeli warplanes break the sound barrier above the capital Beirut

Third set of LOUD sonic booms above Beirut. Israeli warplanes have now done three in 25 minutes.

Several really awful low level passes over Beirut this afternoon by these guys, breaking the sound barrier and sending everyone into a panic. Even our dog was panicked (I think he has the canine equivalent of PTSD from 2020) 😠

🔥 analysis of the historiography of (postwar) American evangelicalism. I feel like this will now be the standard reference my students will need to engage with when defining evangelicalism. Wish I had this when I was doing my dissertation research!