An Unlikely Dinner in the Nation’s Capital
Twenty or thirty years ago, a dinner like this would have been nearly impossible to imagine. A rabbi, an evangelical pastor, a Catholic theologian, and a 12-year-old boy walk into a kosher restaurant in Washington, D.C. It almost sounds like the beginning of a joke. But on the evening of Israel Advocacy Day, it felt […]
If Israel Was Israel When God Judged Her, Why Is She No Longer Israel When God Promises to Restore Her?
A growing refrain in Christian teaching today is that ethnic Israel belongs to the past, while spiritual Israel belongs to the present. The Jews of the Old Covenant are often reduced to misrepresentations of Pharisees and failure. They disobeyed and therefore inherited judgment. The Church, we are told, succeeded where Israel failed and therefore inherited […]