Abraham is a prophet and the spiritual ancestor of three world religions — Judaism, Christianity and Islam — which are collectively the Abrahamic faiths. The Muslim holiday, Eid al-Adha, celebrated ...

The patriarch of patriarchs, Abraham, is considered the founder of Judaism, the spiritual ancestor of Christianity and a major prophet in Islam and ministers say his near-sacrifice of his son Isaac ...

Obedience is not a popular word in our modern world. It can sound restrictive, limiting, or even oppressive. Yet in Sacred Scripture, obedience is presented not as weakness but as strength, not as ...

The story in Genesis of Abraham’s willingness to kill his son Isaac at God’s command still gets a lot of attention. But it doesn’t get a lot of love. In every broadside against religion, God’s ...

The title of this piece points to the central event under discussion: Abraham’s attempted sacrifice of Isaac on Mount Moriah. But, given our discussion of last week and the week before, it might also ...

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