exile
Trending topics: Israel and Jewish identity
Five new books exploring the identity of Israel and what it means to be Jewish
A queer boy in North Dakota
Taylor Brorby’s coming-of-age memoir is a work of defiance. But it is not a tragedy.
Lamenting with my Jewish neighbors on Tisha B’Av
The Book of Lamentations resonates with the stories of oppressed immigrants and refugees.
Mapping Exile and Return, by Alain Epp Weaver
Alain Epp Weaver offers a new conceptual bridge to explain the Israel/Palestine conflict to U.S. readers and to suggest a way forward.
reviewed by Paul Parker
American Christianity in exile?
“We live in a time of exile. At least those of us do who hold to traditional Christian beliefs.”
So says Carl Trueman at First Things, making the case that the Reformed tradition will weather the “exile to cultural irrelevance” imposed by secularism and the sexual revolution better than other Christian traditions. This provocative premise touched off an online symposium on the question of which tradition is best equipped to endure this condition of exile.
A wandering faith: Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16
In 1492, the Jews were expelled from Spain. For centuries they had been tolerated there, and their labor had helped to build a great country. But King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, anxious to establish their hold over a newly united Spain by means of the Catholic Church and the Inquisition, gave the Jews a stark choice: they must be baptized or flee.