{"id":5170,"date":"2022-07-06T12:52:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T09:52:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-02-24T20:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T18:11:07","slug":"glory-to-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2022\/07\/glory-to-god\/","title":{"rendered":"An American Evangelical Christian Man\u2019s Awakening to Palestine [Book Review]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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“This is all we ask. Go back and tell the truth.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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The author of this memoir, Glory to God in the Lowest: Journey to an Unholy Land,<\/em> Rev. Don Wagner, is a longtime friend. Back in the day, Rev. Wagner was based in Chicago, Illinois and I was in Youngstown, Ohio. We both were engaged in the same struggle for Palestine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsequently, when I relocated to Palestine, I would speak to the various eyewitness delegations he led to the Holy Land, or what he prefers to call the \u201cunholy land\u201d \u2014 which, he writes, \u201cserves as a place of injustice that awaits the arc of the moral universe bending to usher in justice, peace, and reconciliation.\u201d
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Read the full article on Medium<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The author of this memoir, Glory to God in the Lowest: Journey to an Unholy Land,<\/em> Rev. Don Wagner, is a longtime friend. Back in the day, Rev. Wagner was based in Chicago, Illinois and I was in Youngstown, Ohio. We both were engaged in the same struggle for Palestine. Subsequently, when I relocated to Palestine, I would speak to the various eyewitness delegations he led to the Holy Land, or what he prefers to call the \u201cunholy land\u201d \u2014 which, he writes, \u201cserves as a place of injustice that awaits the arc of the moral universe bending to usher in justice, peace, and reconciliation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[948,942],"tags":[20,220,1177,1175,88,1367,1202,1188,1182,1174,1172,1196,1185,1195,1191,1184,1181,1180,1176,1183,1187,109,529,18,1186,1194,1179,1193,1192,1189,1190,1173,1275],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-5170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-sams-writings","tag-bible","tag-bible-study","tag-center-for-middle-eastern-studies-the-university-of-chicago","tag-chicago-faith-coalition-on-middle-east-policy","tag-christian","tag-christian-evangelicals-and-evangelical-christianity","tag-don-wagner","tag-elmwood-presbyterian-church-nj","tag-evangelicals-for-middle-east-understanding","tag-friends-of-sabeel","tag-general-union-of-palestinian-students-gups","tag-glory-to-god-in-the-lowest-journey-to-an-unholy-land-book","tag-malcolm-x","tag-mark-braverman","tag-mark-twain","tag-martin-luther-king","tag-mercy-corps-international","tag-palestine-human-rights-campaign-phrc","tag-princeton-theological-seminary","tag-quran","tag-rev-andrew-young","tag-rev-donald-e-wagner","tag-sabeel","tag-sabra-and-shatila","tag-southern-christian-leadership-conference","tag-theodor-herzl","tag-university-of-chicago","tag-uri-mor","tag-us-arms-export-control-act-1976","tag-vietnam-war","tag-white-supremacy","tag-youngstown-state-university","tag-zionism-zionists"],"authors":[{"term_id":936,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sambahour","display_name":"Sam Bahour","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bca109c333bf6d8ae807746dd512adde46265d37c923f6cd0fc4aab437f8e9aa?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5170"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6856,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5170\/revisions\/6856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5170"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=5170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}