I was a young doctoral student in my twenties when I first met someone from Palestine. Until then, I knew nothing about modern-day dynamics in this part of the world, even though I was a biblical scholar. Almost everything I read focused on the Palestine of the ancient past. All that changed when I was…
When I visited Palestine and Israel in December with a group of Anglican clergy from the Diocese of Toronto, we felt as though we were immersed in the biblical story. Omar Haramy, a Palestinian Christian and the Executive Director of the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center, took us on a walk through the Old City…
Some are named, some are hidden. Some are unexpectedly front and centre, others are obscure. These are the women who are connected to the birth of Jesus, many of whom are marginalized both in their culture and in our readings. All of them are seeking to birth hope in a world where the powerful seem…
Creator of all / we are waiting for the sky to fall. / We look on in horror at children killed, / homes and schools bombed, / smoking rubble filling the streets.
It was the summer of 1984 and I was 19 years of age. It was a heady time. During my breaks working for the custodian at Redeemer College, I would listen to two of my professors debating a reformational worldview: “Could all cultural artifacts be redeemed? Or were there some things, like nuclear warheads, that were just unremittingly irredeemable?”
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