ABRAHAM: LIVING UP TO HIS NAME

This is a story about a man who was not living up to his name…and there was nothing he could do about it.  As are our habits, mankind is willing to take matters into its own hands to just make it happen, whatever that “it” is.  We are a powerful lot, but alas, we are…

The Breakup of the “First Family”

Most of the following narrative is based on the recording of scriptures in the Masoretic Text located in Genesis 4.  These observations examine patterns of relationships between family members and their God, Yahweh.  The basic thesis is that these observable relational disconnects are the earliest record of familial dysfunction…from the very beginning. Background As a…