What Abraham was asked to surrender points to a truth modern hearts resist: that fatherhood, like faith, demands total self-gift.

Christian theology has long recognized these “visitors” as the Triune God and seen in this passage one of the first allusions ...

Most of us have had “too good to be true” moments both in our “regular” lives and in our relationship with God, when the ...

Among the most iconic rituals of the Passover Seder is the drinking of four cups of wine. Given the evening’s rich symbolic ...

My job as a pastor, preacher, public theologian, author, and activist is to invite folks into the story of God.

Abram (later Abraham) was plucked out of his routine in Ur, an ancient city in Iraq, by being given a startling promise by ...

They are nothing compared to what I want to give you!" For Abraham, the sign that God was fulfilling the promise came through descendants and a homeland. But these were only a symbol of God's ...