Stop asking Jewish believers when they 'converted'

Two days before writing this from sunny North Carolina, a well-meaning friend asked me, “so, when did you convert?” This question still makes me bristle. Perhaps it shouldn’t.

I answer him, of course, and took it as the well meaning question that it was intended to be, but that word “convert” is not a word that I, or any other Jewish believers in Jesus that I know, feel comfortable with.

Who gets to decide who a Jew is?

I read an interesting chapter of a book recently that asked the question, who gets to decide who a Jew is? What makes a person Jewish is more complex than you think.