(ThyBlackMan.com) When dealing with God, on both the practical and spiritual levels, we have two dissimilar concepts running in our heads simultaneously. On the one hand is the concept of God’s ...

Sunday, Jan. 14, is the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time. Mass readings: 1 Samuel 3:3b-10, 19; Psalm 40:2, 4, 7-8, 8-9, 10; 1 Corinthians 6:13c-15a, 17-20; John 1:35-42 The first reading speaks to us of ...

Rather, love God for who he is, says John Piper. John Piper fears that many who profess to love God don’t love him so much as they do his gifts: “Preachers can say dozens of true and wonderful things ...

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 ...

There are many differing viewpoints. Among them: God can appear absurd sometimes and fabricate realities. God cannot be incoherent or illogical. God is omnipotent, totally independent, and not ...

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 therapy culture has made us too comfortable with God. When theologian David H. Kelsey asked in 1993 what happened to the traditional doctrine of sin, his concern was not that it had disappeared.