By George Weigel, First Things. The Monuments Men was a disappointing movie, but one of its most chilling scenes sticks in my mind as an analogue to the appalling wickedness underway in the Middle East. In the film, SS Colonel Wegner supervises the destruction of art works plundered by the Nazis: treasures intended for Hitler’s…
Oskar Groening is 93 years old. He has admitted to being an accessory to the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Jews at the Nazi Auschwitz-Birkenau complex in Poland in 1944. He is currently on trial for his role in the genocide but the prospect of a prison sentence does not seem to matter much. What…
By Ronald S. Lauder WHY is the world silent while Christians are being slaughtered in the Middle East and Africa? In Europe and in the United States, we have witnessed demonstrations over the tragic deaths of Palestinians who have been used as human shields by Hamas, the terrorist organization that controls Gaza. The United Nations…
By Gradye Parsons LOUISVILLE – “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Christians, Jews, and Muslims are all commanded by God to love God and our neighbor with our whole lives. Yet in the cradle of all three of these faiths, The death toll continues to rise. Palestinian and Israeli fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, and children weep…
Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might, heaven and earth are full of your glory. We acknowledge that you hold the whole world in your hands and that you never slumber nor do you sleep. O God, be attentive this hour to the cries of those who are living in places in the…
By Albert G. Butzer III Let me begin by saying that I am very disappointed with the decision of the General Assembly to divest from three U.S. companies doing business with Israel. I have a great love and respect for the Jewish people, which began even before I was born! I grew up in a…
By Nancy McLaughlin GREENSBORO — The Rev. Sid Batts often dashes across Greene Street on Sunday mornings to the pulpit of Temple Emanuel, which Rabbi Fred Guttman offered for services during renovation of the sanctuary at First Presbyterian. Batts, the neighboring Presbyterian church’s pastor, has since baptized babies and offered communion to the faithful there…
By David French As a Presbyterian, albeit a member of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) it grieves me to see headlines like this, from Commentary: Presbyterians Escalate War on Jews. This story follows another, called Presbyterians Declare War on the Jews, and details the Presbyterian Church, USA’s outright embrace of anti-Semitism. Fresh off a closely defeated attempt…
By Jonathan S. Tobin In February of this year I wrote about the latest instance of the Presbyterian Church USA engaging in hostile behavior toward both Israel and the Jewish people. A new study guide and companion CD about the Middle East published by an official Presbyterian group sought to delegitimize Israel and whitewash those…
By Viola Larson It cannot be stated with any more forceful terms than Presbyterians For Middle East Peace have stated it. Until now the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has not been known for its ideological purges, but when the Stated Clerk, Gradye Parsons, and the Moderator of the General Assembly ousted Rev. Al Butzer from his…