Right now, somewhere, a toddler is melting down. A teenager slams a door. There are husbands and wives, annoyed and disappointed. There are neighbors and co-workers with grievances large and small.

Abraham was the first great Jewish leader. He took responsibility and didn’t wait for others to act. The early history of humanity is set out in the Torah as a series of disappointments. God gave ...

St. Francis in the Foothills United Methodist Church's adult education program will offer a course next month exploring the Hebrew scriptures from a modern, scholarly perspective. The four-session ...