I attend a well-to-do liberal-arts school in the Midwest. The professors are wonderful and the classmates impressive. However, I find myself consistently pained by one thing: Many have little to no ...

"Please turn to Micah 6:1-8" is a standard colloquialism any time a preacher stands up to deliver a sermon. While it may not be that exact Scripture reference, we as expositors of the Word expose our ...

Emblematic of the Bible’s declining influence is what Harper Lee penned in her 1960 novel "To Kill a Mockingbird," in which the character Miss Maudie says, “Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man ...

When Paul came to Ephesus, he asked some disciples of Jesus, “ ‘Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?’ And they said, ‘No, we have never even heard that there is a Holy Spirit’ ” (Acts 19 ...

Comedian Jay Leno has gotten lots of mileage out of exposing general ignorance, including biblical ignorance. He’ll ask passersby a question such as “On the first day of creation, God said, ‘Let there ...

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 ...

Any time a new television show comes on with even a faint whiff of faith, the faithful go ga-ga. So it is with NBC’s new potboiler, Kings. Why shouldn’t we rejoice that the contemporary secular A ...

Dr. Michael Youssef’s new book, “How to Read the Bible (as if Your Life Depends on It),” unpacks what biblical illiteracy and a declining biblical worldview ...

On Tuesday, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America waged a war on illiteracy. But it didn’t tackle the challenge of how to read words. The group addressed the challenge of how to understand and ...

It’sas juicy as reality TV and has enough scandal to boot. Flip through its pages, and you’ll find some of the most powerful social mores underlying Western civilization. Yet the Bible remains one of ...

John Guillaumier’s piece ‘Paul’s teachings’ (February 9) demonstrates sheer biblical illiteracy. His attempt to set Paul against Jesus fails miserably given the sources he adopts to prove his feeble ...