Salt, light and leaven in the Holy Land
Palestinian Christians cast their votes in an election in Bethlehem on the West Bank
Alamy/AP, Mahmoud Illean
“Conquest” and “leaven” are particularly evocative images when reflecting on our Christian vocation in Palestine/Israel and the choices before us as we try to navigate a conflict that stretches back decades.
These two images sketch out very different approaches to the conflict: a choice between taking sides with one warring camp against the other, or fathoming our specifically Christian way of living in the middle of the conflict and witnessing to the possibility of a different reality.
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