by Rebekah Simon-Peter | Dec 14, 2021
As our awareness of different cultures and traditions grows, it’s good to remember that woven right within our Christian traditions are older, more diverse practices. Jesus, for example, is Jewish. Some of the traditions and practices that Jesus experienced as a...
by Rebekah Simon-Peter | Nov 4, 2021
The interesting thing is that December 25 wasn’t just the date of a pagan festival. It also coincides, in a way, with a festival that Jesus did actually celebrate.
by Rebekah Simon-Peter | Apr 19, 2017
I attended two Passover Seders last week. One I led for a large group of New Mexican church-going Christians. The other was in the home of my Jewish kid brother and our religiously, ethnically diverse gathering of family and friends. The first one was designed to...
by Rebekah Simon-Peter | Apr 11, 2017
This week we celebrate the miracle around which Christian life revolves: the death and resurrection of Jesus. It makes me wonder if we are truly ready to embrace a Jewish Jesus. Jesus is seen as a Jew in many pulpits and pews, but usually as an exception, an anomaly....
by Rebekah Simon-Peter | Jul 5, 2016
I mourned when I heard that Elie Wiesel had died. I grew up with this Holocaust survivor and Nobel Laureate. No, not in Auschwitz or Buchenwald, the concentration camps of his childhood experience, but in the darkened room of my 8th grade Jewish Sunday School class....
by Rebekah Simon-Peter | Jan 26, 2015
Church, it’s time to go all the way in embracing the Jewish Jesus. Yes, Jesus is seen as a Jew in many pulpits and pews, but usually as an exception, an anomaly. In too many sermons, commentaries,and hymnals his teachings on love, inclusion, and forgiveness are set up...
