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Oct 17, 2026, 9:21 AM

Israel at the Gaza Border: The History the Decolonization Debate is Missing

While in Israel I visited the Gaza border, Lebanese border and Syrian border. I saw towns that were attacked by terrorists and listened to the stories of those who lost family members. It led me to ask: Is Israel...

Oct 15, 2026, 10:12 AM

Three Remarkable Stories from the Ayalon Institute

During my visit to the Ayalon Institute in Israel, I learned about one of the most remarkable stories surrounding the founding of the modern State of Israel. In 1945, a group of young Jewish pioneers, mostly teenagers, established what...

Oct 14, 2026, 5:44 AM

Blame It on Hezbollah: The Tragedy of Twelve Druze Children in Israel

This wasn't simply an unfortunate incident caused by the war with Hezbollah. Hezbollah took responsibility for firing rockets from Lebanon toward northern Israel. Whether the rocket was aimed at the soccer field, we may never know, but it was...

Oct 6, 2026, 12:04 AM

Why Gerald McDermott Matters: A Guide to Israel, Zionism, the Jewish People

Gerald McDermott is a friend of mine, and I believe he is the best theologian alive today writing on the subject of Israel, Zionism, the Jewish people, and the Bible. He has done more than anyone I know of...

Oct 4, 2026, 11:05 AM

When the Mind Becomes Reprobate: Candace Owens and the Terrifying Romans 1 Logic

I feel like Candace Owens’s way of thinking has shifted. There are a lot of red flags now that I can point to that go beyond her talking about Israel and Jews. I’m not stating that all Christians need...

Sep 24, 2026, 5:21 AM

Understanding the Red and Green Alliance

So why do Western progressives and Islamists agree so much on Israel and Palestine, despite not agreeing on almost anything else that has to do with religion, sex, gender, family, and society as a whole? In this video, I look...

Sep 19, 2026, 10:17 AM

When Feminism Lost the Jewish Woman: Kara Jesella on October 7

In her lecture at the 2026 ISGAP Summer Institute, Dr. Kara Jesella accomplished far more than simply excoriating feminist responses to October 7. Instead, she also pushed back against explanations of those reactions by asking how they became intellectually...

Sep 17, 2026, 9:23 PM

Progressives Supply the Vocabulary. Islamists Supply the Narrative

There is something strange about what many refer to as the Red-Green Alliance, a term that describes the alliance between progressives and Islamists. There are certain aspects of the left and Islamist movements that do not see eye to...

Sep 16, 2026, 5:15 AM

How October 7 Altered My Work: A Conversation with the Middle East Forum

Dexter Van Zile, managing editor of Focus on Western Islamism, recently interviewed me about how my work changed after October 7, 2023. The interview prompted me to think through some important ways that ministry and research have changed since...

Sep 15, 2026, 11:00 AM

Who Has the Right to Give Up Palestine? The Islamization of Sacred Jurisdiction

What shifted was not who would win political control of Palestine but who could legitimately be said to have authority over Palestine in the first place. For much of the twentieth century, combatants framed their struggle in familiar political...

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