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 ...

Q: Attending Catholic school as a child, I remember being bothered by the story of Abraham ... of Isaac in the 22nd chapter of Genesis is the best example I know of in the Bible of why we should ...

The story in Genesis of Abraham’s willingness to kill his son Isaac at God’s command still ... I have heard clergy say they wish it were not in the Bible. But it is, and it recounts a pivotal ...

With “trust” in the subtitle, remember that Abraham totally trusts God after a recent covenant between them when God declared: “I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant ...

NEW YORK — When he first came to believe he had discovered how the Biblical forefather Isaac died, Bible scholar Tzemah ... and for the Abraham who could perpetrate such a thing,” said Yoreh ...

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 ...

Continuing this eight-part series on men in the Bible, the fourth in the series is Isaac. As a practicing, committed Catholic for over fifteen years, I have learned a lot about Abraham and about ...

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.