One basic action that church can take in relation to violence in the Palestinian society in Israel is training poor and marginalized segments of society, including those who do not attend the Church schools and providing spaces and platforms for Palestinians to cultivate their art, build their identity independently and teach their history.

While our colonizer still controls the land, we still see Palestinian Evangelicals embracing this attitude within our small “bubble” and stalling prophetic calls for justice. Those who attempt to have dialogue about this are labelled “trouble-makers” and are blamed for causing disunity.

(1) As Palestinians, we will be better able to love our Jewish neighbours when we learn to love and embrace ourselves. This means refusing to accept the inferior position, status, or role the European Zionists, rabbinical Jews, and sometimes Western Christians place upon us

Palestinian evangelicals engagement in peacemaking is an example of the intersection between faith and context. This involves contribution to the existing theological thought on faith and the Israeli-Palestinian context. It involves advocating for peace as well as engaging the community. In general, these efforts join civil society’s efforts to challenge behaviors and policies that hinder a lasting and just peace in Israel and Palestine, and specifically, they challenge theologies within the global church that also hinder a lasting and just peace in Israel and Palestine.

Unfortunately, the theology of lament has disappeared from our churches today. What a strange reality this is, as lament is weaved into the pages of the Bible. Our church services lack lament prayers and our sermons and songs centre around positive thinking and victory in Christ. Of course, declaring victory in Christ is important and necessary, but it has to be coupled with a real engagement with the painful reality of a broken society.

More than twenty-five contributors worked together in order to honor the contributions of Dr. Salim Munayer, founder of Musalaha and a professor who taught at Nazareth Evangelical College and Bethlehem Bible College. They took advantage of the occasion of his retirement and surprised him with this book.

Yitzhak Herzog was elected today as the new president of Israel. Bader Mansour is reminded of a conversation with him in 2006 and how he was shocked by Herzog's lack of knowledge about Christianity

How do you handle these emotional ups and downs especially when this year was probably the worst for most of mankind with closures, curfews, limitations, distancing and unfortunately many deaths – all resulting from the pandemic?

The much needed support that cynical president needed – brought a new level of support. Trump knew what are the hot buttons that will bring him massive support of the white evangelicals who are a big constituency of the American voters.

In his new book "Looking from the Precipice" Botrus Mansour writes about Church's outreach to youth and says:...if the church wishes to reach out to this generation, and it is compelled to do so if it wants to continue to live, then it must ensure a special environment for youth without compromising its beliefs. Youth will be attracted to the church only if they find there what will fulfill their needs.