Perhaps the most important question in the world is whether or not God exists. But most people, raised and trained well in the intellectual (or anti-intellectual) environment of our culture, when ...

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 ...

I once attended a seminar on “vocation” delivered by a Benedictine monk. He recounted how, if someone bounced up to him with a beaming smile and declared, “I am convinced God has called me to be a ...

Knowledge of this world is antipodal to God’s knowledge; while worldly knowledge provides information, transformation is the exclusive right of the Word of God (John 1:3; Colossians 1:16-17 cf Gen.

THE revival of mysticism, which has been one of the noteworthy features in the Christianity of our time, has presented us with a number of interesting and important questions. We want to know, first ...

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“Man is, ergo God must be.…” This concise formulation expresses succinctly the classical mode of attaining natural knowledge of God. Beginning with the mediate phenomenon of the world, Thomas Aquinas ...

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 ...

False securities can mislead religious life, but they also invite a return to what truly sustains a vocation. The endurance ...

Regular readers know this column is about the Christian life, but you certainly do not need to be a Christian or even a religious person to at least consider the content as thought-provoking. Everyone ...