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 ...

Yesterday, I wrote that God’s warning to Adam and Eve about eating the tree of knowledge—”for as soon as you eat of it, you shall die”—seemed like lax parenting by the Lord, since in fact Adam and Eve ...

The patriarch Abraham (peace be upon him for each mention) is much venerated in Islam, Judaism and Christianity. Muslims request a special blessing from God for him a minimum of five times daily ...

Abraham sacrifices Isaac. Chromolithograph based on a drawing (1860) by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (German painter, 1794 – 1872), published ca. 1880. ZU_09/Getty Images We have been horrified in ...

As we seek to know more about prayer, we can turn to the Catechism of the Catholic Church. While there are many primary sources on prayer and many secondary sources that give helpful summaries of ...

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 between me and ...

The Book of Genesis, which has been focusing on Abraham and his relationship with God, takes a detour to discuss the fate of Lot and, with it, of Sodom and Gomorrah. As our times show some tendency to ...

Letters to the editor mentioning the Bible often treat the Bible as monolithic, as if everything in it is literally true. It is a collection of 66 different writings developed over time. The older ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) As Christians, we sometimes live below-average lives. Being people of God is construed by many to be sweatier, heavier and burdensome. Many are the times that people tell us that ...