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 ...

What are the implications of the openness position for our understanding of God, God’s knowledge of and relationship to the future, and God’s relationship to time itself? I’m focusing on the issue of ...

While putting together a book of readings recently, I ran across some old questions that have occupied scholars, theologians, believers, and probably even atheists over the centuries. Do we have a ...

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 ...

Our 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.

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 ...

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.

Like you, I think it’s quite helpful to reflect on what has shaped each of us, and how this formation no doubt influences how we do theology and the conclusions we reach. What and who has deeply ...