The Senior pastor of Awaiting The Second Coming Of Christ Ministry, Adewale Giwa has described Fulani herdsmen as descendants of biblical Ishmael, the first son of Abraham. Pastor Giwa said the ...

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All week long, I’ve been dreading the elections; it was pretty clear to anyone who was even vaguely aware of what’s going on in the world, that it was going to be bad—the only question was how bad was ...

MOBY-DICK is not only a very big book; it is also a peculiarly full and rich one, and from the very opening it conveys a sense of abundance, of high creative power, that exhilarates and enlarges the ...

A Montana resident recently donated a rare papyrus fragment from the First Temple era (1200-586 BCE) to the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) Judean Desert Scroll Department's Conservation Laboratory ...

Since God had prevented our Matriarch Sarah from giving birth, she graciously decided to give her worthy maid servant to Abraham. This was both an act of kindness towards Abraham, who would merit ...

Sarah, seeing that her stepson Ishmael was a menace to the spiritual health of her only son Isaac, tells Abraham to drive him out of their house, together with his mother Hagar. God tells Abraham to ...

Why Isaac, not Ishmael? Why Jacob, not Esau? These are among the most searing questions in the whole of Judaism. It is impossible to read Genesis 21, with its description of how Hagar and her son were ...

Pop theology about Arabs contradicts the gospel. 9/11 was a weird day for me. I was a sophomore in high school at the time, and as soon as I heard that a plane had crashed into the first tower, I ...