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 ...

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 ...

Our hearts and souls can’t fulfill the Great Commandment without our minds. Jesus was once asked to identify the greatest and most important thing for followers of God to do (Matt. 22:36–37). His ...

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Most of us are failing to appropriate what God has already made available to us because of ignorance. “Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, ...

Who could have guessed that a book written almost 600 years ago by a monk for other monks would become one of the most popular Christian devotionals worldwide, second only to the Bible? Today, The ...

as all humans are made in God’s image, they have an inbuilt capacity and desire to know God, including: human openness to beauty and goodness as aspects of God human intellectual ability to reflect on ...

It’s easy to worry about the state of our world given the amount of increasing tension; it seems to grow stronger every day. Conflict plagues the world on a global scale and trickles all the way down ...