The Great Good Thing: A Secular Jew Comes to Faith in Christ

by Andrew Klavan

I am a Jew. Even now, even in Christ—I would say never more so. I’m proud of this, belligerently proud. Mine is a uniquely great people. We represent about .2 percent of the world. Not 2 percent. Point two. Statistically almost zero. Yet make a list of the most consequential individuals who have ever lived and Jews will be thick among them, from Moses, David, Jesus, and St. Paul to Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, and Albert Einstein. Around one-fifth of all Nobel Prizes have gone to people of Jewish heritage, more if you only count the science prizes. Point 2 percent of the population. About thirteen million souls. There are single cities with more people in them than that. And these Jews, these thinkers of thoughts, these writers of books, these doctors, inventors, entertainers, tradesmen—these are the single most despised and put upon people on the face of the planet, bar none.