Recent study guide brings daring Palestinian Christian doc to congregations
Recent free digital resource invites congregations into a sacred dialogue with Kairos Palestine II —a confession born from the heart of Palestinian Christian suffering.
A 2nd of Reality: Faith in a Time of Genocide (released Nov. 2025) describes itself as a renewed “note of faith, hope, and love” and a “2d of truth” for your total church. This contemporary study guide is obtainable as a instrument for congregations to pay attention carefully to that note and to discern how God is calling the church in the United States (and past) to answer.
To study Kairos Palestine II at some point of Lent, that ancient season of preparation and renewal, is to walk the path of baptism once extra: to rediscover what it means to pledge our faith in Christ and to boldly give up the sin and faulty alive in our world today.
Developed by The Palestine Justice Community (PJN) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), United Methodists for Kairos Response(UMKR), and Visitors of Sabeel North America (FOSNA), the study guide is a free digital download, now available for use as a 2026 Lenten Study and by means of the year.
A Palestinian Christian Lens
For the duration of the guide, questions are framed to engage the wide spectrum of opinions present in church pews and leadership, from deep effort for Jewish–Christian relations to long-standing commitments to Palestinian human rights. Each session invites participants to ask, “How may perhaps this effort explore when considered by means of the eyes of Palestinian Christians who confess Christ in a time of genocide?” Additional, how may perhaps we as Christians let that perspective challenge and deepen our personal discipleship?
The study classes floor the confession in present realities in Gaza, the West Bank, and contained in the wider Palestinian diaspora, where church leaders narrate an ongoing time of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and forced displacement. The guide situates the contemporary Kairos Palestine textual verbalize material contained in the long arc of ecumenical effort for Palestine/Israel and invites congregations to receive it as a roar to the global church for assist and hope.
Contents:
- Leader’s guide
- Text of Kairos Palestine II
- 5 session plans
- Appreciate materials
- Readers’ Theater
- Palestine 101 – a primer
- Latest denominational insurance policies
- Glossary
- Suggested reading checklist
The study guide is meant to equip Christians to speak the reality about Palestinian realities while rooting that truth-telling in a theology of social justice and the traditions and positions of their church.
For extra information and to download the guide now, please visit PJN at thepjn.org, UMKR at kairosresponse.org, or FOSNA at fosna.org.
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Description of Front cowl: Firas Thabet, Gaznica, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 127 x 152 cm. Courtesy of the artist. “Each brushstroke in my paintings carries the pain of a nation.”
Firas Thabet’s work appeared in the “Gaza Biennale” in an exhibition entitled From Gaza to the World, which opened on 11th of September, 2025 in Brooklyn, NY. Most of the 25 artists remain in Gaza, and accomplish their work amid the rubble of the ruins which Israel has decreased Gaza to. Thabet’s Gaznica, adore Picasso’s Guernica, shows devastation and despair and illustrates that in a time of war and genocide, art is now now not a luxurious nonetheless an essential file of life as smartly as death.
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Contact:
Rev. Ron Shive
thePJN.org
[email protected]
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