The Church and the Jewish People

It still turns up in sermons, Easter plays and jokes: "the Jews killed Jesus." For most of church history it was preached openly, and it shaped how Christians treated their Jewish neighbors for centuries. Many Christians today have never been told how much of that history there is, or that the churches have formally rejected it.

This is one of the darkest chapters in the church's story, and it ends this volume because the church has named it as a sin. It's worth facing, and worth measuring against Jesus, who was himself a Jew. You don't need anyone's permission to look at it honestly.

Measured against the center