Celebrating Christmas as an Act of Defiance: Dr. Munther Isaac
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🗓️ 23 December 2025
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Summary
Dr. Munther Isaac is a Palestinian pastor, theologian, author, and activist. He has an MA from Westminster Theological Seminary and a PhD from the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies. Munther is the pastor of Hope Evangelical Church in Ramallah, Palestine, and the Director of the Bethlehem Institute for Peace and Justice. Munther is also the author of several books including the recently released: Christ in the Rubble: Faith, the Bible, and the Genocide in Gaza.
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| 0:00.0 | Merry Christmas to you all. I wanted to share a special Christmas message with you, |
| 0:06.5 | but I decided that who better to share a Christmas message in someone who was born in |
| 0:12.7 | Bethlehem, my friend, Dr. Munther Isak. Moonther is the pastor of Hope Evangelical Church in Ramallah |
| 0:20.3 | Palestine, and he's a director of the Bethlehem Institute for Peace and Justice. |
| 0:25.1 | He's also the author of the very challenging and in some ways prophetic book called Christ in the rubble. |
| 0:34.5 | Mouther was born and raised in Bethlehem and shares how Palestinian Christians celebrate Christmas as an act of defiance. |
| 0:45.3 | Are you poor? |
| 0:47.3 | Do you grieve? |
| 0:48.3 | Are you voiceless? |
| 0:50.3 | Then rejoice for the king of heaven comes to you |
| 1:00.0 | Are you hungry |
| 1:02.0 | For the peace of the nations |
| 1:06.0 | Then rejoice |
| 1:08.0 | For the spirit is making this world new. |
| 1:15.6 | Do you need bread and water from the father? |
| 1:20.6 | Then rejoice. |
| 1:23.6 | Oh, we choice. |
| 1:30.3 | Oh, we choice. |
| 1:34.3 | Moonther, it's great to have you back on Theology and Raw. |
| 1:41.3 | I would love for you to talk to us about Christmas from a Palestinian perspective. |
| 1:51.1 | You grew up in, were born in, and live in the land where Christmas happened. And yet, us who are living in the West have a, if I can say it, a very materialistic, |
| 2:05.7 | consumeristic Western perspective on Christmas that for Christians we're constantly |
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