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 ...

I once attended a seminar on “vocation” delivered by a Benedictine monk. He recounted how, if someone bounced up to him with a beaming smile and declared, “I am convinced God has called me to be a ...

I believe there are three points of understanding why God revealed this first commandment, though the topic is surely ...

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 ...

Christmas is so familiar that it is easy to miss how utterly unlike every other religious claim it truly is. The story is ...

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 ...

2 Peter 1 says, “Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of ...

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 ...