To understand Abraham properly, one needs to understand the centrality of God’s covenant with Abraham. As the Fourth Eucharistic Prayer tells us, “Again and again [God] offered a covenant to man and ...

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, ...

Yesterday, I wrote that God’s warning to Adam and Eve about eating the tree of knowledge—”for as soon as you eat of it, you shall die”—seemed like lax parenting by the Lord, since in fact Adam and Eve ...

When I was a child, I was hit by a car while crossing the road alone. They rushed me to the hospital. I remember being scared. But what I remember most is that my father was often there. He sat next ...

The hopeful, beautiful, and terrible reason for the drastic covenant. Human beings can live as God intended only if flesh is put to death. In opposing flesh, Yahweh is not opposing humanity. He is ...