Growing up in the Evangelical subculture of the United States, support for the nation of Israel was as American as apple pie, baseball, and bald eagles. Ben Gurion and Golda Meir took their place alongside King David and Deborah as heroes of God. Israel, the apple of God’s eye, remained deserving of His people’s devotion […]

In 2004, I began pastoring a little city church in the Deep South. Some seventy years prior to my arrival, the fellowship there had survived a significant church split that hewed the church in two and left an open wound that still festered in the memories of some. The church had been planted in the […]