With a

one look at culture from a Christian worldview on John Stone Street with the point, even before the Israel-Hamass war, there'd been an increase in anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S.

Over 3,600 in 2022, in fact, a 36% increase from the year before.

And now it's even getting worse.

John Redinger, father of three, told CNN that one of his children asked if they were

also going to be kidnapped like the victims in Israel had been.

Quote, it's horrible for any family to have to explain to children that people hate them because of who they are,

and to have to kiss your kids goodbye every day with worries."

Steve Hunnig, executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota

and the Dakota's told CBS News, quote, people have got to name it and address it, it can't be swept away.

And Christians should be first in line to condemn anti-Semitism

in any form, keeping in mind, as Francis Schaefer wrote,

quote, that our Lord himself was a Jew, born a Jew, lived a Jew, died a Jew.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.