While reading scripture this week, I pondered our propensity to dehumanize those who suffer, actively through torture or passively through our indifference. Some stories are so familiar — rote and ...

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Yet Abraham and Sarah also decided to take matters into their own hands and “help God along” on the how by having a boy (Ishmael) through Sarah’s Egyptian slave, Hagar.

Hagar’s pregnancy, particularly given the value both Abraham and Sarai attach to it, changes the relationship between servant Hagar and mistress Sarai.

Prophet Abraham is famous for the numerous ways God tested him, especially the two terrible tests: banishing Hagar and his first born son Ishmael (Qur’an 2:124, & Genesis 16:1-16) and calling on ...

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And we know that Hagar didn’t keep things to herself. The Book says that Abe named the boy Ishmael, so Hagar had told him something. They knew, and now we also know it. We were warned back then!