Gen. 22: 9.--And they came to the place which God had told them of: and Abraham built an altar there and laid the wood in order; and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar on the wood.

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 ...

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 ...

It was last Sunday morning at Mass and I was sitting in my celebrant’s chair next to the altar, dressed in my modest purple silk and the omnipresent and incredibly annoying face mask. The lector was ...

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 ...

Judaism, Christianity and Islam are called Abrahamic faiths not only because Abraham was the first monotheist but because he was so famously devoted to God. His obedience was so strong that he was ...

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 ...