Unsettling Events by John Na'em Snobar - September Edition

Divinity

I write to you from Union Theological Seminary, in New York, where I have commenced a Master of Divinity. I am on the ‘Ministerial Leadership’ track, which leads to a small gate, and a narrow road. Ordination is the process through which one is invested ‘with ministerial or priestly authority’. 

Many today claim to speak for God. Some sit in metal birds, pressing a panel of bible-buttons, dropping bombs on children, speaking of the coming of the Messiah. ‘I am here already’, God tells them, through the cries of the children down below. Others fly self-exploding droves into family living rooms, in Beirut. Mealtime. I was here all along.

As the theocratic construct of the State of Israel breaks the nation-state model, by expanding further into Palestine, and Lebanon; the creation of a Jewish State is about more than just the demographic reversal of a Palestinian majority: it is about the geographic creation of the biblical so-called ‘Land of Israel’.

Although most diplomats, elites and policy-makers love discussing genocide over champagne; nothing quite quenches the thirst like prophecy aperitifs. Even the English manage to find a hint of authentic mysticism, when it comes to prophecy aperitifs.

I attended a Shabbat dinner on Friday. Challah (bread) was broken. There was a mix of divinity, and rabbinical students. One turned out to be a Settler. He lived 20 minutes south of Jerusalem. I contained my reaction, on account of being Anglican.

There is always enough of everything, I thought; except for those who do not know how to share.

Regards

John Na’em Snobar