This dual role differentiated Israel from the Gentiles but spoke of salvation to both groups. The subject being about ...

Abraham Verghese, discussing his latest novel, “The Covenant of Water,” the 101st selection for Oprah’s Book Club. The exclusive conversation, held in front of a captivated audience of Oprah ...

Abraham Verghese’s novels ... talk about his latest book, “The Covenant of Water,” at a fundraiser for the Wisconsin Book Festival on April 29 at Monona Terrace. In this book, as in his first novel, ...

We saw last week the central point of Abraham’s (still, technically, Abram’s) life: God made a covenant with him. Having led him out of his homeland to an unknown foreign land, God now enters ...

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 ...

God killed the animals and made the covering. In Genesis 15, God takes the Mesopotamian model of blood covenant and uses it to express heavenly reality. The Lord has Abraham cut the animal in two, and ...

Most of us have our ideologies firmly rooted in the binaries of faith and reason. But real life is never quite that black-and-white. When things in life don't make sense, we tend to hold on to ...

Tickets are on sale to see Dr. Abraham Verghese ... author of New York Times best-selling novels “Cutting for Stone” and “The Covenant of Water,” was vice chair for the Theory and Practice ...