Christopher Kuehl has spent nearly two decades watching how Christians lose their bearings over the question of Israel and the Jewish people.

Christopher has traveled to more than thirty countries, lived in Israel multiple times, worked as a photographer for Sony and Rolling Stone, and founded four technology companies. He is currently earning his master’s degree in theology and serves as COO of Restore7 and founder of Present Witness, a ministry addressing modern theological questions around Israel, the Jewish people, and the church.

Christopher is the author of Is God a Zionist? Finding God’s Story in a World Obsessed with Israel.

In this conversation we explore why good men and women lose their minds over the Jewish question, how antisemitism captures its adherents and becomes the gravity around which everything spins, and why the modern state of Israel has become a theological flashpoint the church cannot afford to handle carelessly. We also discuss the shared pre-Jesus seeking path that led both Christopher and me through Burning Man, ayahuasca, and the New Age before we found Christ — and why the New Age cannot syncretize the Old Testament.

If you’ve watched friends or family fall into obsessive antisemitism, or you’re trying to make sense of Israel theologically, this conversation offers a framework for thinking clearly.

In this episode

• Why good men lose their minds over the Jewish question

• How antisemitism becomes the gravity around which everything spins

• Why October 7th was a break point for the church

• What the church fathers assumed about Jewish exile — and why 1948 shattered it

• The scapegoating pattern from Egypt through Tsarist Russia to today

• E. Michael Jones and the online anti-Jewish movement

• Sartre’s Anti-Semite and Jew and the character of obsession

• Non-dispensational Zionism and the voice of many waters

• The New Age connection to modern antisemitism

• Why psychedelics create unshakeable false certainty

• Why the Old Testament is the one thing the New Age cannot syncretize

• The moral cost of repentance at the highest levels of power

• Christianity becoming trendy without addressing the Jewish question