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 ...

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 son Isaac up to him. Once God saw that Abraham was ...

Source: Wikimedia Commons: Abraham offering up Isaac by Charles Foster, public domain In my post on my other blog on 1/2/2011, Of Hormones and Ethnic Conflict, I described a biological rationale for ...

In preparation for Sunday's sermon, the Rev. Cress Darwin reviews the biblical book of Genesis. He finds the story where God orders Abraham to leave his home and promises him numerous descendants ...