Introduction -- Diaspora -- On not being in charge : John Howard Yoder's Revision of the Jewish-Christian schism -- An exilic politics of land and return : the case of Edward Said -- Zionism, separation, and diaspora consciousness in the land -- Witness -- Missionary christology as subversive proclamation : creedal orthodoxy and diaspora witness -- The body politics of the Church in exile -- Parables of the Kingdom : encountering Jesus outside the walls of the church -- Return -- The end(s) of return : memory against forgetting -- The Ephesian vision against the iron wall -- Thinking about terrorism : the case of Palestine-Israel -- Remembering the Nakba in Hebrew : return visits as the performance of a binational future -- Epilogue : breaches in the walls.