I'm sure all of us are very familiar with this feast of Corpus Christi, which means, "Body of Christ," but which we now celebrate as the feast of the Body and Blood of Christ. Most of us probably ...

We’ll further unpack God’s relational nature and the covenant with him in the next two columns, updated from the original ...

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 ...

In his recently published book The Triumph of Life: A Narrative Theology of Judaism (The Jewish Publication Society) prominent modern Orthodox theologian Rabbi Irving (Yitz) Greenberg explores the ...

Editor's note: Because Bishop Thomas Gumbleton was traveling last week, his homily for March 11 was late coming to NCR. Sometimes when we celebrate the special Peace Mass, if you will, on occasion ...

Emeritus BYU professor of ancient scripture Robert L. Millet teaches about the difference between an oath and a covenant. Religious covenants bind the participants together in obedience to God, who ...