Connecting churches more difficult than dividing Palestine, pastor says

“I would rather be dividing land in Palestine,” the Rev. Mark Brewer of Bel Air Presbyterian said Sunday night, “than getting churches to work together.”

Brewer is definitely a good Presbyterian, a philo-Semite struggling with the liberalization of his denomination. He’s also my pastor, and has been for the past eight years. And, on the above statement, I think he’s right. Look at how much trouble the Church of England is having. Now, compare that to how little Great Britain had to deal with when it washed its hands of Palestine (and Iraq and India) without actually helping reconcile new neighbors.