I ask this question from a Jewish perspective, and from the perspective of someone who is a little bit pedantic when it comes to language. Christians don’t use the word ‘Christian’ in the same way that Jews, Muslims and Hindus do. Technically a person born of Christian parents, christened as a child, married in a church, and buried in a Christian cemetery, is a Christian. But to a religious church-going Christian who believes in God and Jesus Christ, a Christian who does not go to church and who

When National and International News is happening to you, it is very important to life and well-being. When it is not happening to you, how important is it? I could read news all day about The Middle-East and be fascinated. I'd take sides, get outraged, and wonder about the future. But the Middle-East is also very far away, populated by individuals that I will never meet. Unless I am close to the Middle-East, or am someone who wields power or influence, I can do nothing about what I learn. I

I Care I Feel I am Sad There’s nothing I can do “In this house…” “Nobody is illegal…” Housing is a human right! Free Palestine! Protest, chant, shout Wave banners   Back home Vaguely unsatisfied, restless Ennui Silky skeins of Banal flit uncomfortably Miss Miriam’s garden is out of control.  Where is her son?  (Free Palestine!!) Mr Rashid’s newspapers are piling up He must be away with his daughters.  (Love wins)  That bare tract of land, Eyed warily, is now Tiny Ho