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Likud lawmaker Hanoch Milwidsky. By Rod Benson In remarks circulated on video in September 2026, Likud member of the Knesset Hanoch Milwidsky reportedly declared: “We are not like everyone else,” adding that laws applying to others do not apply to the Jewish people. According to the published English translation, he also described the Jewish people …
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Gloria Steinem on Jan. 15, 2013, in Pasadena, CA. A reflection on the legacy of Gloria Steinem By Rod Benson As a man, and as a Christian, I admired Gloria Steinem from a distance as one of the most influential feminist writers, organisers and public intellectuals of the modern era. From the 1960s onward, she helped …
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Each year, as College Chaplain at Worcester College at the University of Oxford, New Testament scholar N. T. Wright would meet first year undergraduates, welcoming them to the college and breaking the ice. Most were happy to meet him; but others said, “You won’t be seeing much of me; I don’t believe in god.” I …
When first published, Miroslav Volf’s Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation (1996) was quickly recognised as a significant work of contemporary political theology and theological ethics. A revised and expanded edition was released in 2019 by Abingdon Press, with a new preface, a 38-page epilogue reflecting on the work 25 years later, …
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