“At the heart of reconciliation is the need for all Christians to take seriously their relationship with the Jewish people.” Canon Andrew White in “Father, Forgive: Reflections on Peacemaking” p122) In May this year I went to Kiev to speak at a Toward Jerusalem Council II conference promoting reconciliation between Eastern and Western churches, a 1000 year old church split that underlies the cultural divisions at work in Ukraine and Russia today. The conference was hosted by the Kiev Messianic Jewish Synagogue and this brought to the conference an even more ancient church split – between Jew and Gentile in
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