While holidays are often marked by parties, shared meals, gift-giving and special outfits, experts say there’s health ...

Eid Al Adha serves as a celebration to the success found in obeying the command of God. Not only was his son unharmed, but ...

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 my case, I took two semesters of Biblical Hebrew, the language of the Old ...

Millions of Muslims are making a journey to Mecca for Hajj, the sacred pilgrimage and pillar of Islam-an act of submission to ...

The Qur’an and the Bible give an account of Abraham, obeying God’s command to sacrifice his son. God was testing Abraham’s trust in Him. Abraham’s past the test, trusting that God could ...

Abraham’s ultimate call from God was to sacrifice his son Isaac. God had promised to bring him descendants “as numerous as the sands on the seashore” through Isaac. This contrast must have ...

But as Abraham raised his death-dealing dagger, God, the ever-faithful God, stepped in once more, this time to provide a substitute ram for the sacrifice. Abraham’s faith had brought him through ...

These awaited delights are both trivial (like the classic Lenten sacrifice of sweets ... we read the story of God making his covenant with Abram—henceforth Abraham. God’s side of the deal ...