We haven’t always been this way. It is certainly not necessary to think that the six days spoken of in that first chapter of the Bible are intended to be six days of 24 hours each. We may think of ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...
The theory of evolution, as initiated by the publication of Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species, has had a profound impact on the fortunes of Christianity. Since next year, 1959, is the centenary of ...
Three students came to my office. I was the chaplain at Mary Baldwin College (now University), and they were there to get money from my budget for a speaker they wanted to schedule. He was from an ...
While controversies over evolution continue to arise in some sectors of American Christianity, most mainline Christians have made their peace with Darwin. We may not grasp all the nuances of the ...
But in a nation where evangelical Protestantism and other Christian traditions stress a literal reading of the biblical description of God's individually creating each species, students often arrive ...
At the 200th anniversary of his birth, Charles Darwin's theory of human evolution continues to challenge and inspire all who contemplate the human condition, and especially the role of religion and ...
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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va (WVEC) -- Most people raised in the church have learned that evolution and religion do not mix. However, one Virginia Beach church believes the two can be combined. The Lynnhaven ...