It is the responsibility of every concerned citizen to get out and vote. If every Christian voted based on biblical ...

and another at Hebron by the oaks of Mamre (13:18). Abram has a son named Isaac, and Isaac is the father of Esau and Jacob. Esau, the first-born, sells his birth-right to Jacob, and later Jacob ...

Discussing the biblical story of Jacob and Esau, a speaker said that Esau, the scorned older brother, experienced a “personal Nakba,” the name Palestinians use for the catastrophe they ...

Jacob and Esau is a profound new account of two millennia of Jewish European history that, for the first time, integrates the cosmopolitan narrative of the Jewish diaspora with that of traditional ...

The terms election and predestination are often used interchangeably, both referring to God’s gracious decree whereby he chooses some for eternal life.

Nayantara Roy uses this age-old conflict as the spark for her engrossing debut novel, “The Magnificent Ruins.” The narrator is Lila De, a smart young book editor at a New York publishing company ...

I shared this week on my Facebook page, “Purchased Possessions Ephesians 1:14,” that I have been having many thoughts ...

James and Jonathan are not cut off from each other the way I am from my parents, and talking to the father and son left me ...

Obviously, I don’t think that it is. Hearkening back to the story of Jacob and Esau, I’ve described it as selling the birthright of the Jewish American dream for a pot of territorial porridge.

Although Jacob gets glamorized by the Judeo-Christian faith, he is one of the most unsavory characters in Scripture.

In mythology, their stories are linked to the origins of nations (Romulus and Remus; Esau and Jacob) and the power of the gods (Castor and Pollux; Apollo and Artemis). Venerated in some cultures and ...