But Christianity is an Eastern religion, and its homeland is in the Middle East. A far better vantage point is Jerusalem. It was located on the western edge of a vast Aramaic-speaking area to the east, and was at the eastern edge of an empire that reached to the British Isles in the west. The prophet Isaiah said that “all the nations shall flow . . . to the mountain of the house of the Lord” (Isaiah 2:2). Jerusalem welcomed people from both East and West, and if one keeps the holy city in mind, the global history of Christianity will not be forgotten.
