“There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths,” philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche stated in his 1878 book “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits.” Though many take Nietzsche’s ...

The Roman governor Pontius Pilate asked Jesus that question in John 18:38 after Jesus said he had come into the world to testify to the truth and that everyone on the side of truth listened to him.

I have been around for more decades than I wish to admit, but it is only in the past few years that I have heard people use the terms “my truth” or “your truth.” Doesn’t truth conform to facts and ...

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 ...

When fear overrides faith, even truth becomes distorted; this is the lesson of the spies in the desert.

There is truth, and there is belief. Belief is a personal truth, not necessarily absolute truth. Continuing with my ponderings on this matter, I have to say it is complicated because truth’s ...

When I was a young adult, coming of age at the turn of the millennium, my evangelical pastor often preached against moral relativism. “If anything is true, then nothing is true,” he would say, “and ...

Sitting in a cramped, hot, sleep-inducing lecture hall with hundreds of students is hardly the way most students would envision an ideal spring morning. Sitting in a cramped, hot, sleep-inducing ...