The article “In search of justice" by Mohammed Azhar Ali Khan did not surprise me. (The article says that the United Church, Canada's largest Protestant church, has taken a stand on the Middle East that is upsetting those who want Canada to back Israel's oppression or at least keep quiet about it.) Canada's United Church has always been progressive. In 1997, the Philadelphia Inquirer published the article “A Christian debate as church leader says Jesus isn't God". A loosely knit group of theologians and scholars known as the Jesus Seminar had been pondering such issues. What is increasingly significant among Christians today is not brandname faith but how one answers these questions. What is at stake is the definition Christianity will carry into the next century; how to confront the life of Jesus and what to think about the person and work of Jesus Christ (peace be upon him). What divides Christians more and more in North America is: Do you believe that Jesus was in any way divine, or just a human moral model or example? Many Protestant denominations are searching for new ways to interpret their religion/faith with regard to Jesus Christ (pbuh). Olga Pitcairn, Pennsylvania, US
