Sunday Devotions: The Stars in Abram's Sky

Genesis 15, Hebrews 11

If you try to read the Bible alongside the news, this week’s Old Testament reading can seem like an origin story for the interreligious troubles that still divide Abram’s part of the world, as those descended from Ishmael — the “slave born in my house” (v 3) that his father will cast out but God will not abandon (Gen 21:8-21) — continue to fight with th…