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Caricatures and Cliches
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:32pm | Type: Magazine Article

Barbara Slavin How many of your friends and neighbors know, as Barbara Slavin writes in Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies, that during the 19 ...

Beyond Eye for an Eye
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 2:18pm | Type: Blog

<P>In the <I>Washington Post</I> and throughout the blogosphere, debates rage about the recent spate of violence between Palestinians and Israelis, each side condemning with righteous indigna ...

Hypocrisy in U.S. Policy
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:39pm | Type: Blog

<p><a href="http://blog.beliefnet.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-search.cgi?tag=The%20Cost%20of%20War&amp;blog_id=37"></a></p> We are told ...

Amens and Amendments to Rich Nathan's Israel Sermon
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 2:18pm | Type: Blog

<P>I commend <a href="http://blog.beliefnet.com/godspolitics/2008/01/how-should-christians-relate-t.html">Pastor Nathan</a> for the courage and commitment to truth required to publi ...

How Should Christians Relate to the State of Israel?
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Blog

<p>In November our friend Pastor Rich Nathan sent us this compelling sermon and we've been looking for a good time to post it ever since. The occasion of Bush's trip to the Middle East seems to b ...

Bush Gets a Brush-Up on the Beatitudes
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Blog

<p><P>Archbishop Elias Chacour, an Eastern-rite Palestinian Catholic bishop in the region of Galilee, is escorting President Bush on a tour of the Mount of the Beatitudes in Israel on Friday, Jan. 11 ...

Christians United for Peace in the Middle East
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 2:18pm | Type: Blog

<P>President Bush <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Bush-Mideast.html">is in Israel today</A>, meeting with Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Presiden ...

Wise Men Denied Security Permit to See Baby Jesus
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Blog

<p><P>So I don't know whether to laugh or cry about the latest progressive addition to the classic nativity scene: the separation wall.</P> <P>Either way, I love it.</P> <P& ...

The Evangelical Factor in Middle East Peace
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Blog

<p>The Nov. 27 Annapolis meeting on Israel/Palestine has launched us into a momentous one-year process to seek a permanent peace agreement between Israel and its neighbors. What is at stake is whether af ...

A Prayer for Annapolis
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 2:28pm | Type: Blog

<P>Leaders from some 50 countries and organizations, including 12 Arab nations, are meeting in Annapolis, Maryland, today to begin negotiations for a peace agreement in the Middle East. ...

The Elusive Reasons for Rami's Death
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 2:29pm | Type: Blog

<P>Gaza is a place isolated and unknown. Although the small coastal strip is all too often in the media spotlight, this can be a source just as much for generalization as information.</P> ...

The Elusive Reasons for Rami's Death
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 2:29pm | Type: Blog

<P>Gaza is a place isolated and unknown. Although the small coastal strip is all too often in the media spotlight, this can be a source just as much for generalization as information.</P> ...

The Elusive Reasons for Rami's Death
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 2:18pm | Type: Blog

<P>Gaza is a place isolated and unknown. Although the small coastal strip is all too often in the media spotlight, this can be a source just as much for generalization as information.</P> ...

American Christians Should Listen to Christian Arabs /by Ryan Rodrick Beiler/
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 2:29pm | Type: Blog

Here are some key quotes from a <a href="http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2007/august/21.42.html"><em>Christianity Today</em> interview </a>with "Beirut-based journalist ...

Daoud Kuttab: Good News for Palestinian Christians
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Blog

<p>I first heard about the <a href="http://blog.beliefnet.com/godspolitics/2007/08/deanna-murshed-evangelicals-an.html">letter of the evangelical leaders</a> through an e-mail from ...

Deanna Murshed: Evangelicals and Israel
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 2:29pm | Type: Blog

I've gotta admit, it hasn't been easy being a Christian Arab-American, much less in the evangelical church. I've gotta admit, it hasn't been easy being a Chris ...

Road Map to Peace - or Destruction?
Originally Posted: 09/10/2012 - 4:43pm | Type: Magazine Article

Charles A. Kimball Three evangelicals on the challenges of Israel-Palestine. Former President Jimmy Carter� ...

A Kindling of Hope
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Magazine Article

Phil Haslanger Bridging gaps in the Middle East. Every so often in the tense and troubled lands of Israel and ...

After Arafat
Originally Posted: 09/10/2012 - 4:44pm | Type: Magazine Article

Charles A. Kimball An opening for peace? A week after U.S. elections, President George W. Bush and ...

Beaten, Not Bowed
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:39pm | Type: Magazine Article

Rose Marie Berger Mark Betz Christian Peacemaker Teams members Kim Lamberty and Chris B ...

Eye On Zion
Originally Posted: 04/06/2011 - 7:29am | Type: Magazine Article

Rose Marie Berger Brian Bolton The Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center in Jerusalem hosted more than 500 ...

Dividing the Conquered
Originally Posted: 05/20/2011 - 10:33am | Type: Magazine Article

Ed Spivey Jr. Israel's wall of separation. While peace negotiations between Palestinians and the ...

Open Season on Activists?
Originally Posted: 08/28/2011 - 7:23pm | Type: Magazine Article

Rose Marie Berger Kate Bowman Standing for peace in a war zone is never easy, but it� ...

Road Map or Dead End?
Originally Posted: 04/06/2011 - 7:25am | Type: Magazine Article

Duane Shank 'What we need is not another feel-good plan, but a serious effort to seek peace.' Chil ...

A Deafening Silence
Originally Posted: 04/06/2011 - 7:25am | Type: Magazine Article

Kate Bowman In Israel, is it now okay to kill Americans? The death of International Solidarity Movement volu ...

Anti-Semitism and Justice
Originally Posted: 08/28/2011 - 7:23pm | Type: Magazine Article

Lee Anne Aspra WHILE ARTHUR WASKOW ("Pro-Israel, Pro-Peace, Anti-Occupation," May-June 2003) makes a few valid points about the ...

It Takes Two
Originally Posted: 08/28/2011 - 7:24pm | Type: Magazine Article

Harriet Warnock-Graham I was moved by Josh Healey's concern for the human rights of Palestinians ("Not in My Name"). It ...

Worth Noting
Originally Posted: 08/28/2011 - 7:25pm | Type: Magazine Article

Ryan Beiler When this book was published, the Committee to Protect Journalists had just named the West Bank as "the worst place to be ...

Cold Comfort
Originally Posted: 08/28/2011 - 7:25pm | Type: Magazine Article

Rose Marie Berger Jodi Hochstedler First he took off his hat and coat; then his sweater ...

A Light in the Darkness
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 8:52pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis This edition of Sojourners went to press just as the U.S. military strikes in Afghanistan began, which makes this special issue ...

A Platform for a Movement
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 8:52pm | Type: Magazine Article

David Batstone We can't sacrifice our deepest convictions for the sake of a false unity. Both politics a ...

Courage Among Friends
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 8:52pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis My wife, Joy, my son, Luke, and I had dinner recently with our friend Michael Lerner and his wife, Debora, in their Berkeley, C ...

Against Impossible Odds
Originally Posted: 07/27/2011 - 10:17am | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis You wouldn't know it from media reports, but there's a hopeful movement being born in the Middle East—interfaith, roo ...

Getting in the Way of Aggression
Originally Posted: 07/27/2011 - 10:18am | Type: Magazine Article

Susannah Hunter On the front lines with Christian Peacemaker Teams On June 15, three members of the Christian ...

Israel Holds the Cards
Originally Posted: 07/27/2011 - 10:21am | Type: Magazine Article

Molly Marsh Rabbis for Human Rights "During this current crisis," Rabbi Arik Ascherman said, "t ...

Violence with a Brooklyn Accent
Originally Posted: 07/27/2011 - 10:21am | Type: Magazine Article

Jeremy Milgrom American Jews in Israel Unmistakable American accents surface in the Hebrew of many West Bank s ...

Based on Our Jewish Values
Originally Posted: 07/27/2011 - 10:21am | Type: Magazine Article

Rebecca Lillian Jewish Unity for a Just Peace Nearly 200 international Jewish activists gathered in Chicago th ...

Pilgrims' Regress
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 8:52pm | Type: Magazine Article

Tom Getman Why 'Holy Land Tours' miss the real story Why don't most Christian visitors to Israe ...

Unmasking False Religion
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 8:52pm | Type: Magazine Article

Naim Ateek Following Jesus in occupied territory. The Pharisees asked Jesus, "When will the kingdom of Go ...

Inside Israeli Apartheid
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 8:52pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis An interview with Palestinian Christian Jonathan Kuttab. Jonathan Kuttab, a leading human rights ...

Remember This
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 8:54pm | Type: Magazine Article

James W. Aageson What we are able to remember is important, but how we remember is even more so. Nowhere is this more true than in the Mid ...

A Cry for Atonement
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 8:54pm | Type: Magazine Article

Michael Lerner Peace will only be achieved when Israel embraces the Palestinian people. As a religious Jew dee ...

What Makes for Middle East Peace?
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 8:54pm | Type: Magazine Article

Tom Getman Reaching Across the Barricades Jesus wept over Jerusalem, declaring, "If only you had known... ...

What Makes for Middle East Peace?
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 8:54pm | Type: Magazine Article

Neve Gordon Jerusalem's 'Sanctity' must be built on justice Upon his return from Camp David in ...

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem
Originally Posted: 04/06/2011 - 7:24am | Type: Magazine Article

Peter Walker The Holy City Few cities in the world excite such passion as Jerusalem. Despite its size—until ...

Breaking Down the Walls
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:28pm | Type: Magazine Article

Molly Marsh Together Palestinian and Israeli activists fight 'functional apartheid' in the West Bank. ...

Topple a Tyrant, Protect the Innocent
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:29pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis In November, once again, Iraq responded to a military threat and signaled that it would allow U.N. weapons inspectors to resume ...

A Better Way to Fight Terrorism
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:29pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis The U.S. government is telling us that we have entered a new war, one that may last for years, even decades. If that is so, we ...

What To Do About Iraq?
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:43pm | Type: Magazine Article

David Cortright George A. Lopez The Moral Dilemma of sanctions. ...

A Sophisticated Colonialism
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:43pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jeremy Milgrom Under Israeli occupation, peace eludes Palestine. "The next time you need day laborers, ju ...