The Bible offers powerful stories that have influenced faith and morals for centuries. Some, however, pose tough ethical ...

Books and reading can change your life, said Abraham Verghese, eminent physician and author, most recently, of ‘The Covenant of Water’. Dr Verghese delivered the inaugural address at the 13th ...

Every life comes with challenges. The very genesis of existence is rooted in ... you up out of this land to the land that He swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob... You will bring my bones ...

Thus afterlife is felt to be a reunion and all of life a preparation for it … Death is not understood as the end of being but rather as the end of doing. As such it is a dramatic break, a radical ...

26 1 Now there was a famine in the land-besides the previous famine in Abraham's time-and Isaac went to Abimelek king of the Philistines ... Isaac answered him, "Because I thought I might lose my life ...

9 When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. 10 Then he reached ...

Along the journey, Abram was promised a son (Genesis 15:1-6), and he and Sarah became parents in their old age. The birth of their baby gave new life, new meaning, new purpose, and the Lord changed ...

Abraham Verghese would go on to study medicine ... But he admitted that working on fiction and mining stories from his life take time, and he said his latest novel, The Covenant of Water ...

The Abraham House has been providing terminally ill guests and their families a safe and loving home, with all the support needed for dignified end-of-life care, free of any financial burden ...

Biblical tales from the books of Genesis and Exodus, including the stories of Abraham's devotion and Joseph's betrayal ... Set just after the death of Jesus Christ, this mini-series chronicles the ...

When Jesus spoke about His eventual return, He referenced two historical periods -- the days of Noah and the days of Lot.