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 ...

Most people in the world have learned of Abraham the Hebrew (Genesis 14:13), who Jews regard as the first Jew, not by reading a book of Jewish history, but by listening to and reading from the ...

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 ...

On Sunday, the Book of Hebrews told Catholics that Abraham trusted and obeyed God regarding leaving his home, bearing children and sacrificing Isaac. As described in Hebrews, “By faith Abraham obeyed ...

These days, the course I teach to undergraduates on Christian-Muslim relations is more relevant than ever. Five years ago, I could maintain that the United States seemed quite resistant to the fever ...

So many others have questioned God in Abraham’s footsteps, most notably Moses, Jeremiah and Job. This dialogue between a ...

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 man and ...

“It is fundamental to the nature of faith to take God’s word for things; acceptance on the authority of God is the biblical analysis of faith on its intellectual side.” The truth of this statement by ...