{"id":210,"date":"2009-08-25T19:40:40","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T19:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/kingdomofpriests\/2009\/08\/on-being-witnessed-to-at-tullys.html"},"modified":"2009-08-25T19:40:40","modified_gmt":"2009-08-25T19:40:40","slug":"on-being-witnessed-to-at-tullys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/kingdomofpriests\/2009\/08\/on-being-witnessed-to-at-tullys.html","title":{"rendered":"On Being Witnessed to at Tully&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was in Tully&#8217;s for coffee today and had a book with Hebrew in it with me. Along with my <i>kippah<\/i>, this caught the eye of a very sweet lady with long grey hair and a big t-shirt boldly printed with swooshing letters, &#8220;JESUS!&#8221; For whatever reason, Christians don&#8217;t witness to me very often &#8212; sometimes I wonder, &#8220;Am I chopped liver?&#8221; Anyway, she caught sight of the book and said &#8220;Wow! Is that Hebrew?&#8221; then went on with a big smile and lots of exclamation points about how Jesus was a Jew himself and was I aware of this?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I smiled in turn and asked her if she&#8217;s a big book reader. &#8220;Oh yes!&#8221; she exclaimed, so I recommended to her my book <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0385510225\/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=486539851&amp;pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&amp;pf_rd_t=201&amp;pf_rd_i=0385510217&amp;pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_r=1DZRYQ87NWZ537D869PS\">Why the Jews Rejected Jesus<\/a><\/i>&nbsp;and said she could find it at her local King County public library. I wrote out the title for her on a piece of paper.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I think &#8212; I know &#8212; lots of people, not least Jews, who would be annoyed or at least made uncomfortable at being accosted in public this way. I don&#8217;t mind, in fact I find it charming &#8212; though maybe that&#8217;s because it happens so rarely, and this lady was herself charming. Anyway, we talked for 10 or 15 minutes. Normally I&#8217;m quite interested in hearing people&#8217;s stories about themselves but in this case my interest kind of slipped when she started talking about her theory on Obama being the anti-Christ.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in Tully&#8217;s for coffee today and had a book with Hebrew in it with me. 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