There are two words that loom large on my horizon right now, playing a big part in Interfaithfulness. Those words are collaboration and synergy. I see collaboration as two or more entities operating in their areas of strength, working together on projects or goals to which they are mutually committed. To put it in more vernacular terms, […]
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Here at Interfaithfulness, our vision statement says, "Exploring the synergy between Judaism and Christianity, partnership between Christians and Jews, and the relationship between God's tomorrow and our today." From this vision statement flows a wide variety of initiatives--ways of changing the worlds of thought, word, relationship and action. One of those initiatives is mentoring people […]
With this post, we conclude our review and summary of Dr. Michael L. Brown’s book, The Real Kosher Jesus: Revealing the Mysteries of the Hidden Messiah. The book was published as counterbalance and response to Orthodox Rabbi Shmuely Boteach’s book Kosher Jesus in which he sought to present a de-supernaturalized Jesus, very Jewish in his […]
(We continue here our series of posts on Michael L. Brown's fine book, The Real Kosher Jesus: Revealing the Mysteries of the Hidden Messiah. This will be the next to last installment of a four part review, with the other parts also available here on this blog). In Section One of his book, Dr. Brown described […]
In this post, we continue our examination of Michael Brown's book The Real Kosher Jesus by examining its second section, "From Kosher Jesus to Unkosher Christianity?" It consists of two chapters about the Apostle Paul. In the first of these chapters he considers the range of negative opinions that have circulated about who Paul was and […]
As I mentioned in my most recent blog post, one of our concerns at Interfaithfulness is to Reconstruct Yeshua/Jesus. By that we mean re-examining our views of who Yeshua is, of what he said about himself, and what his disciples said about him, and revising our own views accordingly. We want to bring the mental […]
At Interfaithfulness, one of our commitments is Reconstructing Yeshua. This means discovering in a deep way who he claimed to be, and how his followers understood him and represented him to others, and then reconstructing our sense of who he is so that the Yeshua in our minds is as close as possible to who […]
“Jesus was just a Jewish rabbi, and the New Testament was written hundreds of years later by overzealous followers who twisted the Jewish Bible and made him into a God in order to market him to a Gentile audience.” That’s what my Aunt Dottie, of Blessed Memory, said to me when I became a Yeshua […]
Would Jesus eat a cheeseburger? Instead of the loaves and fishes, would he just as readily have multiplied ham sandwiches to feed the multitudes? Some people would say, "Sure! Jesus himself declared everything to be kosher!" I am going to create a crisis in this posting for Messianic Jews who think they have Yeshua's license […]
I'll take good blog material anywhere I can find it! Just the other day I picked some up at a local church. I visited a great place this past Sunday, a church where I have always received a warm welcome and where i have taught from time to time. I have some dear friends there […]
