I retired from my secular career a year ago this month, and last fall — with all the other kids — I went back to school. In ...

But a question remains. Why did God call on Abraham to challenge Him? Was there anything Abraham knew that God didn’t know? That idea is absurd. The answer is surely this: Abraham was to become ...

the Catechism highlights and points us to the patriarch Abraham: “In his indefectible covenant with every living creature, God has always called people to prayer. But it is above all beginning ...

attempting to fulfil his father’s far-flung goals. Abraham interpreted what this commandment really meant: to be good children we must follow righteous parents’ roles. On Mount Sinai this ...

All three groups were in the monotheist tradition, stemming from the pure monotheist, the ‘Friend of God,’ Abraham-the-Hebrew, whom I prefer to call the first ‘Islamic’ or the first ...