The readings for the 14th Sunday of Ordinary Time (July 8) focus on prophets. The text from Ezekiel tells us that, whether people listen or not has nothing to do with the truth of the prophet’s ...

Most people in the world have learned of Abraham the Hebrew (Genesis 14:13), who Jews regard as the first Jew, not by reading a book of Jewish history, but by listening to and reading from the ...

It is possible that the unique role of Muhammad among Arabs is related to the distinction made by Muslim scholarship between the ‘apostles’ (rusul) and the prophets (anbiya1). Muhammad ibn Sacd (d.230 ...

Statue of Elijah on Mt Carmel. (Credit: Micah Camper from Unsplash.) Listen While every era of salvation history has its own unique focus and expression of prayer, none of the other epochs compare ...

Prophets are men and women of God who are supposed to be God’s voice in these last days. Where are God’s prophets? The majority of them have quit. Most of them like the life that they’re living ...

The first lesson today is about a prophet, Jeremiah, and about prophecy, and the Gospel lesson is also about Jesus as a prophet and his prophetic work. We might think these lessons don't apply to us ...

Many disastrous conflicts in human history were led by men who spoke as if they were directed by God to lead the slaughter. President Bush asserts that “I trust God speaks through me and without that, ...