4 episodes
Promised Land Christianity Today
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4.6 • 153 Ratings
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Promised Land is a limited series exploring the moral, spiritual, and political challenges presented by the Israel-Hamas war. Host Mike Cosper (The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill) takes listeners with him to locations across the US, Israel, and Palestine, bringing you into the homes, lives, and stories of people for whom this conflict is their everyday experience.
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Promised Land: It's Complicated
What happened on October 7 changed everything for Israelis. We visit Kfar Aza to understand why.
Promised Land is a limited series exploring the moral, spiritual, and political challenges presented by the Israel-Hamas War. Host Mike Cosper (The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill) takes listeners with him to locations across the U.S., Israel, and Palestine, bringing you into the homes, lives, and stories of people for whom this conflict is their everyday experience.
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Promised Land: The Zionist Story
In this episode of Promised Land, host Mike Cosper visits Shalom Hotel in Jerusalem to meet with Zionist Jews who have fled their homes after October 7. Digging beneath the facade of popular thought, Cosper explores the roots, identity and inspiration of Zionism. Interviews with Yossi Klein Halevi, author and former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations Michael Oren, Rabbi Yehiel Poupko, and others paint a fuller picture of Jewish connection to the land of their ancestors – and why this longing often has sparked controversy.
Promised Land is a limited series exploring the moral, spiritual, and political challenges presented by the Israel-Hamas War. Host Mike Cosper (The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill) takes listeners with him to locations across the U.S., Israel, and Palestine, bringing you into the homes, lives, and stories of people for whom this conflict is their everyday experience.
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Rocks in Hard Places: From The Foundation Stone to Living Stones
The Israel-Palestine conflict is a collision of competing stories, each with claims on the land connected to faith, history, and Justice.
On this episode of Promised Lands, we explore the Palestinian story — or rather, several Palestinian stories, from Christians and Muslims in East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
Guests include a Muslim scholar and member of the Waqf — the council overseeing Al Aqsa Mosque and Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, Palestinian Christian theologians, and an evangelical Palestinian pastor from Bethlehem. They discuss the importance of Al Aqsa to Muslims, their vision of pluralism, life under occupation, the Christian presence in the Holy Land, and various visions of a path to peace.
Promised Land is a limited series exploring the moral, spiritual, and political challenges presented by the Israel-Hamas War. Host Mike Cosper (The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill) takes listeners with him to locations across the U.S., Israel, and Palestine, bringing you into the homes, lives, and stories of people for whom this conflict is their everyday experience.
Executive Produced by Erik Petrik
Produced, Edited, and Mixed by Mike Cosper
Field Recording by Michael Winters
Additional Production by Matt Stevens and Clarissa Moll
Some Production coordination and assistance provided by The Philos Project
Music By Dan Phelps
Additional Music By David LaChance, Jr.
Artwork by Rick Szuecs
Theme Song “On Jordan’s Stormy Banks” performed by Sandra McCracken
Listen to More in This Bonus Series:
Promised Land Part One: It’s Complicated
Promised Land Part Two: The Zionist Story
Making Sense of the Israel-Hamas War
Antisemitism and the Jewish Identity
Hamas and the Laws of War
Terrorism and the Road to War
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Empire of Refugees: Victims, Villains, and Settler Colonialism
In this episode of Promised Land: A Bulletin Miniseries, host Mike Cosper visits Ashkelon, home of the ancient Philistines, just a few miles north of the Gaza border. Through conversations centered around Barzilai Medical Center, Cosper explores why the West requires Israel to play by different rules when it comes to defense and modern warfare. Weaving history with present day narratives, he posits compelling questions: Why is the West so quick to blame Israel for colonialism? Why does compromise on both sides – Israeli and Palestinian – often feel like treason? What are the stories each side is telling about themselves and about the other? And, can peace ever be achieved when one side becomes the absolute victim? Listen in for compelling commentary on the history of this contested land, a land where everyone claims to be a refugee.
Promised Land is a limited series exploring the moral, spiritual, and political challenges presented by the Israel-Hamas War. Host Mike Cosper (The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill) takes listeners with him to locations across the U.S., Israel, and Palestine, bringing you into the homes, lives, and stories of people for whom this conflict is their everyday experience.
Executive Produced by Erik Petrik
Produced, Edited, and Mixed by Mike Cosper
Field Recording by Michael Winters
Additional Production by Matt Stevens and Clarissa Moll
Music By Dan Phelps
Additional Music By David LaChance, Jr.
Theme Song “On Jordan’s Stormy Banks” performed by Sandra McCracken
Listen to More in This Bonus Series:
Making Sense of the Israel-Hamas War
Antisemitism and the Jewish Identity
Hamas and the Laws of War
Terrorism and the Road to War
It’s Complicated
The Zionist Story
Rocks in Hard Places: From the Foundation Stone to Living Stones
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Customer Reviews
So good!
I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this series and learned so much about the opposing perspectives. Wonderfully balanced and very engrossing.
A compelling listen
Exceptional and incredibly well made.
12/10 recommend
Some reviews criticized Mike for being one sided and however that is far from reality. It is true he pushes back harder on the Palestinian narrative but he still clearly represents their perspective and is empathic with how it functions in the overall conflict. He doesn’t “accept Israel’s narrative at face value,” sure he could be more direct about Israel’s responsibility and critical of oppressive behavior. But he interviews actual soldiers, survivors, first responders, and scholars to build a picture of their experiences and motivations.
Overall the listener is exposed to some of the complex history, politics, and violence of the conflict and the 7th and will hopefully walk away with fuller understanding.
Very Well Done
I enjoy listening to each one of these episodes, the content grips me. The reporting defies the common narratives that we hear in the main media outlets, much more in depth and seems to me to be even handed to both sides. And, the Sandra McCracken title song is amazing, how do I find it elsewhere?