This year reminded us that we are vulnerable creatures able to be felled by multiple causes, from the tiniest virus to the greatest natural forces of earth, water, fire and wind. Modern science often ...

The way to discover a God compatible with the findings of physics and psychology is to assume that God himself is in a process of change and growth. So believes the small band of U.S. thinkers who are ...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - Samford University's Beeson Divinity School resumes its "Tell Out My Soul: Journeys of Faith" chapel series on Tuesday at 11 a.m. in Hodges Chapel, unless inclement weather ...

Jeymes Samuel’s controversial, “The Book of Clarence” film sparks conversation about acknowledging the divine in ourselves and others. “Notes on faith” is theGrio’s inspirational, interdenominational ...

Andrea Raynor spent more than a decade at Harvard Divinity School. She tells intriguing stories of what she saw at this infamous seminary and how it got her passionate about ministry. “Not long ago, ...

When The New Yorker magazine was peerless for its combination of erudition and wit, it ran a cartoon of Lilliputians contemplating Gulliver, whom they had fastened to the ground with ropes: “Either he ...

Back in 1905, Max Weber’s landmark treatise, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, argued that a Calvinist belief in God’s plan for the saved was crucial to the rise of capitalism because ...

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 ...

Last week I published a harsh criticism of Duke Divinity School. A current student, Ben Davison (a graduate of Hope College, and a second-year M.Div student at Duke), has written in defense of his ...