This is a detailed review of a book that has much to commend it. The book is: Calvin L. Smith, ed., The Jews, Modern Israel and the New Supersessionism. New Revised and Expanded Edition (Broadstairs, Kent, UK: King’s Divinity Press), 2013. This much-needed work deals with the old phenomenon of supersessionism but in a new […]
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In part one of this little series on Moses' marital life, we considered interfaith conflicts he had with his fiery wife, Tzipporah. This second study takes place later in his life, when Moses is already established as the leader of Israel. He marries again. This time he marries a Cushite, whom we would term an Ethiopian. […]
Andrea King, If I’m Jewish and You’re Christian, What Are the Kids? [New York: UAHC Press], 1993. This blog post supplements the previous one which covered the first half of this book. Here is the second half. Anyone who knows anyone in a Jewish/Christian intermarriage would benefit from reading and thinking about both reviews and […]
Andrea King, If I’m Jewish and You’re Christian, What Are the Kids? [New York: UAHC Press], 1993. This is an excellent book for gaining an overview of some of the issues and challenges inherent in interfaith marriages and the additional problems interfaith couples create for themselves and for their children when they practice avoidance or […]
I was at a three day religious gathering of some very nice people recently, many of them Jews who had come to believe in Yeshua, the Man from Nazareth and Messiah of Israel. Anyone who has hung out with Jewish Yeshua believers and who has bothered to think and observe will know that Jewish Yeshua […]
I love to read, and I need to stay up to date on a variety of fields related to my work. I am sure many of you also want to stay up to date on the subjects that matter to you. This is why you will periodically see book reviews on this blog.These may help […]
The story of Moses, his wife Tzipporah, and their family situation outlines the dynamics and challenges of many interfaith relationships. It is fascinating to see the intermarriage stresses that surfaced in Moses’ life and how they compare to issues we confront today. Moses and Tzipporah came from two different religious backgrounds, Moses, Jewish of course, […]
My Bio on this site says I am an Interfaith Futurist. The other day, one of my Facebook friends asked what that means. Here’s my answer. As an Interfaith Futurist I seek to order current action by a sober assessment of the future to which God is calling us. This is not simply a religious […]
In a Jerusalem Post article, Harold Berman discussed how the Jewish community increasingly is viewing intermarriage as a reality with which it must come to terms. While at one time the posture of the community was to absolutely forbid intermarriage, and later, to stigmatize intermarriage and to restrict the communal status and participation of even […]
To understand what we do at Interfaithfulness, it helps to break our name into three interlocking parts: Interfaith, exploring the synergy between Judaism and Christianity; Faithful, exploring partnership between Jews and Christians; and Fullness, exploring the relationship between God’s tomorrow and our today. Let’s unpack that a bit. Interfaith – We offer new perspectives on […]
