The Cross and the Olive Tree Book Tour event
How do we keep Faith and Hope alive in a time of genocide?
How can we bear witness to suffering, imagine a different world and move towards reconciliation in the face of destruction?
These are not abstract theological exercises – they are the urgent, lived questions that the next generation of Palestinian theologians wrestle with in the book ‘The Cross and the Olive Tree’. This hybrid meeting will explore the themes presented in this book.
John S. Munayer, is a Palestinian theologian from Jerusalem and holds degrees from London, Edinburgh and Amsterdam. He will join this meeting online from Jerusalem. John is currently involved in interreligious activism and is the founder and editor of the Journal of Palestinian Christianity at the Bethlehem Bible College. He is a PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh. He brings deep scholarship and lived experience to conversations on faith, justice, and peace in the Palestinian context .
Prof Esther McIntosh is Professor of Feminist Theology and Ethics at York St John University. She will join the meeting in person. She is a trustee of Sabeel-Kairos and co-leads the Sabeel-Kairos Palestinian theology group which is currently hosting a book reading series on The Cross and the Olive Tree.