There are many widespread misconceptions about the Bible. Polls consistently show that, despite many people carrying a copy ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Our hearts and souls can’t fulfill the Great Commandment without our minds. Jesus was once asked to identify the greatest and most important thing for followers of God to do (Matt. 22:36–37). His ...

Theologian John Sanders lost his college teaching job recently because of his endorsement of “open theism”—the view that the future is not determined by God. His ouster from Huntington College in ...

Some people think that only the present is real and that the past and the future don’t exist. This view—known as “presentism”—encounters problems if God exists changelessly, outside of time in an ...

When someone passes away, the family gathers together to hear the reading of the will. The heirs of the deceased then hear what they have inherited. If they don’t know what is in the will, they could ...