With Christmas fast approaching, I have been looking for gifts that I can purchase for my two sons. They want the normal things that most kids seem to want: Transformers toys, video games, toy ...

Scripture is never simple. Even before we begin to read, we must know who is speaking, and why, and to whom, and with what agenda. To make matters even harder, the events and teachings we read about ...

The newest member of the Church of Jesus Christ's Quorum of the Twelve Apostles said he can't remember a time he didn't have ...

Postmodernism, with its critique of modern assumptions about knowledge, language, authority and narrative, presents new challenges for preachers. Postmodernity is generally seen as entailing a ...

In recent columns we’ve been exploring Jesus’ proclamation of the kingdom of God with an eye to how the Church is socially relevant today. One of the kingdom stories that Jesus tells is his parable 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 ...

Mary and Joseph’s journey to the tender heart of parenthood. I CAN STILL REMEMBER our first trip home as a family after my daughter was born. I don’t know that I had ever driven as safely or as slowly ...

Pope Francis’ 2024 encyclical on the Sacred Heart of Jesus is packed with testimonies from the saints of prayer and devotion to the heart of Christ throughout the centuries. Dilexit Nos, meaning “He ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Jesus' use of the first person plural in John 3:11 is rarely given more than passing comment. The common explanation that a group outside of ...