“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 ...

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 ...

Our Protestant brethren say that one is justified by faith once for all and not at all by works. Catholics say that initial justification is “monergistic” (not involving our work to attain it) and by ...

One of the great examples of faith is Abraham, also known as the father of our faith. His story and that of his family pretty much covers the entire book of Genesis. And through this tremendous story, ...

"Martin Luther taught the story of Abraham and Isaac this Way:" Abraham was told by God that he must sacrifice the son of his old age by a miracle, the seed through whom he was to become the father of ...

More than 130 members of Yolo County's interfaith community gathered at the Woodland Mosque & Islamic Center to raise $2,342 ...

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 ...

Kierkegaard predicted that his 1843 work Fear and Trembling would be translated into many different languages, and would secure its author's place in history. He was right. But Fear and Trembling has ...

In the Old Testament, personal relationship with God showed itself in separation, and this is symbolized in the life of Abraham by his separation from his country and from his kith and kin. To-day the ...