Yeshua Explored
Chaim
May 2021
Is there life in our churches?
I have just read the first novel, The Legacy, by the well-known cultural commentator, Melanie Phillips. As a secular Jew, the novel reflected the journey she has undoubtedly been on and, although there is no religious angle in the novel, the portraits she paints of Jewish cultural life are evocative. She parallels three stories, in England in the 12th Century, Poland in the 1940s and modern-day London. Despite the geographical and historical disparities the theme of strong, moral, family-centred life connects all three and it is clear that the author feels a sentimental pull of the certainties of Jewish family life in a world that is doing its best to destroy such a regressive patriarchal out-dated structure!
