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Culture What does it mean when people say Israel and Hamas are fighting a ‘holy war?’
Some Christians are interpreting the violence as the culmination of prophecies about the End Times
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Culture Holy cow! Can one heifer herald the Third Temple — and the end of the world as we know it?
A red heifer calf has been born in Israel, to the delight of controversial Third Temple advocacy groups
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Film & TV Hit Christian TV show ‘The Chosen’ is all about Jesus. So why is it so Jewish?
Sure, Jesus was a Jew — but Christians don't usually focus so much on that
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Opinion Stop Gaslighting The Left About Evangelicals. They Believe Awful Things About Jews
Most evangelicals believe that Jews who don't convert will go to hell, for one
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Opinion The Idea That Christian Love For Jews Is About Rapture Is A Paranoid Conspiracy Theory
'There is simply no evidence suggesting that large numbers of Christians harbor a terrifying desire for Jesus to slaughter innocent people'
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Culture Setting The Record Straight On Christian Zionism
'Many Christian Zionists equate the modern nation-state of Israel with the land of the biblical Israelites'
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Culture Why Everything You Think You Know About Christian Zionism Is Wrong
'Christian Zionists do not secretly want to convert Jews; in fact many argue vociferously against missionizing'
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News Christians Are Studying Torah — In Israel And Online — To Get Closer To Jesus
'As Christians, we believe in Jesus and that Jesus was a Jew'
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