Christianity

Response · June 22, 2023
Unchurched Christians and Anti-Semitic Ones
By Timothy P. Carney
The best bet to fight far-right anti-Semitism is to hope that America's lapsed Christians return to the pews.
Response · March 8, 2021
Lessons for Streaming Synagogues from the Evangelical Experience
By Andrew T. Walker
The digital forces now at work on Jewish communities reflect a challenge that American churches have been wrestling with for decades now.
Observation · January 28, 2021
Why the Word “Amen” Has Changed So Little in Its 2,500-Year History
By Philologos
Its meaning in the Bible is “Truly said!” or “So be it!” After that it acquired its intense liturgical emotion, and then hasn't changed much since.
Observation · May 6, 2020
The Truth about the Controversial New Translation of the Bible
By Philologos
Even though it takes liberties rendering the original text, a new Danish Bible breaks from anti-Semitic Christian replacement theology in a far clearer way than ever before.
Response · January 15, 2018
The Bible Has Long Deserved a Museum. Now it Finally Has One.
By Peter Wehner
Anyone expecting to find a politicized museum dedicated to hot-button “culture-war” issues needs to look elsewhere than the new Museum of the Bible.
Monthly Essay · January 2, 2018
Who’s Afraid of the Museum of the Bible?
By Diana Muir Appelbaum
Critics accuse it of threatening the separation of church and state; in truth, Washington's new museum makes an invaluable contribution to American (and Jewish) cultural literacy.
Observation · December 20, 2017
Why the Terms CE and BCE Replaced AD and BC, and Why Jews Care About It
By Philologos
It's not why you think.
Response · August 27, 2015
How Jews Can Help Christians Learn to Succeed as a Minority
By Bruce Abramson
As Christians in America lose their majority status, they can gain from the experience of a religious minority that's been here from the start.
Response · November 13, 2014
America’s Religious Recession
By Jonathan D. Sarna
It's not just Jews—nearly all American faiths are in decline. Could this mean a boom is right around the corner?
Response · June 17, 2013
Love, Particular and Universal
A Christian perspective on the Ten Commandments.