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 ...

The story of Abraham and Isaac is one of the most fascinating, and troubling, in the Bible. It has inspired philosophers like no other. The medieval of course had much to say about Abraham ...

Judaism, Christianity and Islam are called Abrahamic faiths not only because Abraham was the first monotheist but because he was so famously devoted to God. His obedience was so strong that he was ...

In Genesis, the first book of the Bible ... Abraham’s first wife. This promise contains elements that, in translation, sound like a prediction of hostility between Ishmael and Isaac’s descendants.

The story of Abraham and Isaac is one of the most challenging stories in the Bible but that's exactly what drew filmmaker David Helling to it. His feature debut film, "His Only Son," depicts the ...

Few figures in the Bible, and indeed the history of Western thought, loom as large as Sarah and Abraham from the Book of Genesis. Abraham's willingness to sacrifice their son Isaac has inspired ...