Learn more about the Israel/Palestine conflict

At Two Wailing Walls and the Peoples of Promise, the New Wine community will explore some of the complex issues that feed the conflicts between Israel and Palestine. These issues are multi-faceted and somewhat foreign to many Evangelicals.

To learn more about what we’ll be discussing at the conference, explore some of these books, articles, lectures and films.

BOOK Arabs in the Shadow of Israel: The Unfolding of God’s Prophetic Plan for Ishmael’s Line by Tony Maalouf (conference keynote speaker!)

BOOK Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid by Jimmy Carter

BOOK Whose Land, Whose Promise?: What Christians Are Not Being Told About Israel and the Palestinians by Gary Burge

BOOK The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan

ARTICLE The Awkward Silence in the Church by “Palcoria Jesusequitur”

ARTICLES and LECTURES Christ at the Checkpoint: Theology in the Service of Peace and Justice from Bethlehem Bible College

MUSIC VIDEO Love and Peace or Else by U2

FILM With God on Our Side

FILM Paradise Now

FILM Promises

ORGANIZATION Evangelicals for Middle East Understanding

ORGANIZATION Venture International

Duke’s Summer Institute

The 2010 Duke Divinity School Summer Institute (presented by the Duke Center for Reconciliation), “The Ministry of Reconciliation in a Divided World” will be held May 31 – June 5th. It will be five days of reflection, formation, renewal and going deep for Christian leaders.

The Duke Summer Institute is not a conference for the many but a learning space limited to 200 Christian leaders to go deep. Over five days of renewal and learning with Christian leaders from across the U.S. and world – through worship, shared meals, plenary sessions, and in-depth cohorts – you will be led by world-class theologians and practitioners of reconciliation and justice ministry. In 2009 there were participants from 23 states and 7 countries. Your fellow participants this summer will include a cohort from east Africa, senior leadership teams from national organizations, several groups from cities and Christian colleges and universities, and leaders from the grassroots to churches to national and international organizations as well as lay Christians concerned about their families, communities and places of worship, work, and life. Scholarships are available through April 9th. Applications will be accepted online through May 7th. Click here for more information and to apply.