The question “Do Jews need Jesus?” returns in waves, usually when proselytism wants to look like pastoral care. Judaism is ...
A Times Square billboard proclaims "Jesus is a Palestinian." That sentiment is historically inaccurate — and also dangerous.
'Ecce Homo' (Behold the Man), by 19th-century painter Antonio Ciseri, depicts Pontius Pilate presenting Jesus to a crowd in Jerusalem. Tungsten/Galleria d'Arte Moderna via Wikimedia Commons It’s a ...
Having grown up in the years after Nostra Aetate – the Vatican document rejecting the traditional accusation that the Jews were responsible for the death of Jesus – I assumed it was a settled issue.
The golden age has been replaced by a grim new reality in which antisemitism is being normalized with terrifying speed.
Of course, God can do any miracle He wants, so it's never possible to say never. But intuitively and historically, barring a ...
Jews have been used as the scapegoats of societies throughout history. Blaming all Jews for allegedly killing Jesus of ...
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Each year, our church celebrates this feast as a declaration that with Jesus’ birth we once again acknowledge the viable ...