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 ...

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 ...

To this end, God chose a person called Abraham and made a promise that his descendants would be a blessing to the world – that through Abraham’s family God would be made known and people would ...

The promise to Abraham is not a one-off declaration but is reaffirmed through his son Isaac and grandson Jacob (renamed Israel). In Genesis 26:3-4, God tells Isaac, “Stay in this land for a ...

Jacob is a most interesting patriarch. It is through him that God’s promise to Abraham would be realized. But he’s also a swindler. I’ll admit my indebtedness to the Polish author ...