Less spending, higher prices and fewer animal sacrifices subdued the usual festive mood as the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha ...

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 ...

And these two sons of Abraham, Prophet Ishmael and Prophet Isaac, are the only two Prophets who each had a descendant many many centuries later, who proclaimed a sacred scripture each of which has ...

The descendants of Ishmael and the Descendants of Isaac both treasure their common ancestor Prophet Abraham, “whom God chose to be His friend. ” (Qur’an 4:125 & Isaiah 41:8) Abraham is the ...

Sunday’s episode of “The Last of Us” Season 2 introduces viewers to Isaac Dixon (Jeffrey Wright), a former FEDRA soldier who turned on the governmental force in favor of joining Seattle’s ...

Among Israel’s great patriarchs — Abraham, Isaac and Jacob — Isaac is something of a transitional figure. That doesn’t make him unimportant, but he is transitional. He’s important ...

To understand Abraham properly, one needs to understand the centrality of God’s covenant with Abraham. As the Fourth Eucharistic Prayer tells us, “Again and again [God] offered a covenant to ...

In the times of the Bible and in ancient Israel, a person’s name also included his father’s, e.g., “Isaac ben Abraham,” “Jacob ben Isaac,” “Jesus ben Joseph.” Individualism was not ...

“Come in,” says Liverpool fan Isaac Kearney. Toy guitar in hand, he’s been singing along in the lounge while watching YouTube footage of Merseyside musician Jamie Webster entertaining a ...