Lighting Candles While Signing the Checks and Bombs that Fall on Gaza

Lighting Candles While Signing the Checks and Bombs that Fall on Gaza

A year and a half ago, I was preparing to travel to Palestine and Israel with fellow students and scholars. As a Christian pastor and theologian, I had long wanted to visit the “Holy Land.” However, this opportunity had never been offered through church-affiliated trips, which focused primarily on the Palestinian perspective of what it means to resist and survive under occupation. We would still visit all the important Jesus-related holy sites. …