Latest News and Ideas

Stories and news for inspiration, and information about what we’re up to.

Latest articles

many candles

Remembering our own lost to war & terror

On Yom Hazikaron, Israel's Memorial Day, CMJ remembers staff and Christ Church Jerusalem members who were lost due to war and terror.
4 weeks 1 day ago
Janusz Korczak

Janusz Korczak: The Warsaw Ghetto "Pan Doktor"

Books tell stories of many heroes among the Jews forced into the Warsaw Ghetto – some believers in Jesus and others not. Janusz Korczak was among those Jewish heroes, and he cared for hundreds of Jewish children there. Here is a bit of his story.
1 month 2 weeks ago
Sculpture of John Chrysostom

Why Is Good Friday Still Dangerous For Jewish People?

Unfortunately, this Christian holy day has been fraught with anti-Semitism for centuries.
1 month 3 weeks ago
Jesus touches a leper - The Chosen

The Chosen: Gospel TV treat

The Chosen presents Christians with a perfect opportunity to introduce friends and family to a truly awesome, and beautifully scripted, take on the life of Jesus, who is depicted as very down-to-earth and approachable - and clearly Jewish.
1 month 3 weeks ago

From the archives

The Chosen: Gospel TV treat

The Chosen presents Christians with a perfect opportunity to introduce friends and family to a truly awesome, and beautifully scripted, take on the life of Jesus, who is depicted as very down-to-earth and approachable - and clearly Jewish.
1 month 3 weeks ago

The (non-pagan) origins of Easter

The Holiday of Easter is one of the most widely known celebrations of the Christian Faith. It is commonly taught that this was originally a pagan holiday baptized by the Christian people in the early centuries of the Church. However, the evidence paints a
1 month 4 weeks ago

Book on Jewish Christians of Holocaust now published

In 1943, Bazyli was forced to hide in a woodshed while his wife Anna passed as a Gentile Polish woman. But early the next year somebody betrayed them. The Gestapo had come looking for them.
2 months ago

CMJ Holocaust Memorial Service

With guest speaker, Susanna Kokkonen, former director of Christian Friends of Yad Vashem. Also presenting will be Kelvin Crombie on the Jewish Christians who died in the Holocaust. Watch archived recording.
3 months ago

Bazyli & Anna Jocz: Jewish Christian victims of the Holocaust

Today, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we share with you a talk about Bazyli and Anna Jocz, two Jewish Christians who suffered at the hands of the Nazis. Bazyli was killed by the Gestapo, and Anna was paralyzed after being beaten by a Nazi.
3 months ago

Video: Prepare the Way

Places in the Bible have significant importance. Events occur at certain locations, not by chance but because they provide added emphasis and meaning to the deep truths of God. Geography is theology. So a question arises as we begin the season of Advent:
4 months 4 weeks ago

What happened to the Wrath of God?

Twice recently I heard on national radio broadcasts interviews with prominent, well-known authors who in slightly different words proclaimed that God is not “a God of wrath” but a “God of love.” To my ears both displayed a tinge of Marcionism.
6 months ago

Love & relief for Lebanon

On Tuesday, Aug. 4 at 6:47 pm, while At the Crossroads partners were on an Isaiah 19 Zoom gathering with our Lebanese brothers and sisters, there was an explosion in Beirut that has devestated the city. Read how you can help.
9 months ago

Praying for Zion & others in song

We offer you two prayerful songs to contemplate today.
1 year ago

Report: Spike in anti-Semitic sentiments amid Coronavirus

anti-semitism in English-Hebrew dictionary
1 year ago

Passover video series by Shoresh Study Tours

Shoresh Study Tours shares a series of videos on Passover. In the videos, Aaron Eime, a deacon at Christ Church Jerusalem, talks about what Passover is, followed by a Passover Seder with his family.
1 year 1 month ago

Why do we fast?

The season of Lent, the forty days before Easter, begins this year on Ash Wednesday, February 26, 2020. Traditionally it is a time of fasting, repentance and reflection in preparation for remembering the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus. (Traditio
1 year 2 months ago
... then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to it, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Come, breath, from the four winds and breathe into these slain, that they may live.’” So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet—a vast army.
Ezekiel 37:9-10