Why Would Believers in Jesus Observe Yom Kippur?

Last Passover, Jewish Twitter erupted over Christian Seders. Now, Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, is joining the Christianity club, and Jwitter is just as upset. Christians observing Yom Kippur isn't exactly new, but it does seem to be increasingly widespread. This time, the discourse seems to have started in large part with a tweet from Bruce Stokes, an anthropologist at California Baptist University. "This week Judaism and many Christians observe Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, which is the holiest day of the Jewish religious calendar," he tweeted, along with a picture of texts that are traditionally read on Yom Kippur, as well as selections from the New Testament; he did not include the Book of Jonah, which Jews traditionally read during Yom Kippur services. (Stokes did not reply to a request for comment.)