We’re failing. The Israel-Hamas war is barely two weeks old and we are witnessing a collective religious failure. Christians, Muslims, and Jews alike are failing to live up to their own principles. The moral and ethical “rules of engagement” have been thrown out the window—be it on the battlefield or in public discourse. How should religious people of good faith interpret and respond to this political and religious cataclysm? Join Shadi Hamid and Matthew Kaemingk for a special episode of Zealots at the Gate. Together they discuss the war and the many ways in which the faithful are (mis)interpreting the underlying dynamics at play.

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Shadi Hamid’s article on humility amid the war:  https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/10/16/intellectual-humility-israel-palestine-debate/

Reinhold Niebuhr’s book Moral Man and Immoral Society:https://bookshop.org/a/65404/9781773237565