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Author Archives: Donald Mead

Syria and the Challenge to the Church: Dealing with Exceptionalism, Past and Present

As we look across the different issues discussed in this series of articles in Unbound on the Doctrine of Discovery and how it relates to the Middle East today, one common theme emerges.  Those of us who are white, American, … Continue reading

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Author Dr. Don Mead

The Presbyterian Church and Boycotts, Divestment, and Sanctions

For more than a hundred years now, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and its antecedent organizations have called for the use of economic pressures to challenge injustice, oppression, and other situations which they viewed as morally wrong. Examples include a call … Continue reading

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Author Dr. Don Mead

Living in the Shadow of Occupation

In those days a decree went out from Emperor Augustus that all the world should be registered…All went to their own towns to be registered. Joseph also went from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the city … Continue reading

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