Q: Attending Catholic school as a child, I remember being bothered by the story of Abraham being tested by God. God asked Abraham to sacrifice his only son, Isaac, up to Him. Once God saw that Abraham ...

This piece begins a four‑part series exploring the story of Genesis 16 and what it reveals about God and the human heart.

FORGET, FOR A MOMENT, WHAT GENESIS MIGHT mean. Did any of it actually happen? The scholarly consensus is that no evidence, archeological or otherwise, exists for the first 11 chapters: nothing for the ...

This week and next we’ll address what might be called “Abraham and the Child Problem.” We’ll see the human solution … and the divine one. We saw last week the central point of Abraham’s (still, ...

Our Father Abraham had eight sons. The record of these sons and their names are in the Book of Genesis. First he had Ishmael, who was the son of a slave woman--Hagar of Egypt was his mother. She was ...