The Expulsion of Adam and Eve, by Benjamin West. Source: Wikicommons/public domain. The Bible opens upon Adam and Eve, whom some believe to have been real people. Whether literal or allegorical, what ...
Why did Adam and Eve disobey God and eat from the tree of knowledge? Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch argues that Eden was a society based on the system of divinely rooted ethics. For this reason, God ...
(RNS) — Married to a member of an Episcopal church choir, I had the pleasure this past month of sitting through two performances of Lessons and Carols, the musical-scriptural summary of the reason for ...
except the tree of knowledge of good and evil. From that tree you shall not eat; the moment you eat from it you are surely doomed to die.” Today’s first reading walks us through the precursor to the ...
Sunday, March 1, is the First Sunday of Lent (Year A). Mass readings: Genesis 2:7-9; 3:1-7; Psalm 51: 3-6, 12-13, 17; Romans 5:12-19; Matthew 4:1-11. Of the many themes in the creation story of ...
The first woman tried to get free of God. But when she aligned herself with God’s purposes, she became the ‘Mother of All the Living.’ If we’re lucky enough to grow up with a mom, we learn a lot from ...
The Expulsion of Adam and Eve, by Benjamin West. Source: Wikicommons/public domain. The Bible opens upon Adam and Eve, whom some believe to have been real people. Whether literal or allegorical, what ...
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