The Ark of the Covenant is one of those objects that has an incredible weight of mystery about it. It crossed the desert and ...

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 ...

The idea of “covenant” comes up frequently in proposed solutions to mainline crises. Before writing its final report, the PCUSA Theological Task Force on Peace, Unity, and Purity of the Church drew up ...

ONE of the great ironies of the Christian life is that those who profess the strongest belief in God’s sovereign will are ...

The terms contract, agreement, treaty and covenant have the same basic legal interpretation. Two or more sides, or parties, have agreed to carry out obligations or responsibilities in exchange for ...

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 ...

The Hebrew Bible makes reference to several different kind of covenants (Hebrew: בְּרִיתוֹת) with God. These include the Noahic Covenant set out in Genesis 9, which was decreed between God and all ...

May the church offer divorcees grace, not guilt-trips. Many divorced Christians have felt they step into church wearing a scarlet D. Author Elisabeth Corcoran was one of these. After her marriage of ...

Q: In our Friday morning Bible class (ladies), we are reading Hebrews. and we read in Hebrews 8:8-12, which quotes Jeremiah 31:31-34, in comparing the new covenant with the old. The old covenant law ...

This article looks at the second covenant, given by God at Mount Sinai and reinforcing the covenant that God had given to Abraham. The covenant that God gave at Mount Sinai reinforced the covenant ...