(Image above of a Santa Muerte altar found in a drug house raided by San Antonio, Texas, police.) In 2010, when I had my Beliefnet blog, I got a letter from a reader who was (and I guess still is) an ...

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 ...

Have you ever had an especially meaningful dream? Maybe you dreamed you talked with a deceased loved one, or you received some premonition while you slept. Perhaps you’ve had a dream you died, which ...

A spiritual awakening is what happens when there is an opening up to spiritual realities caused by a change in perspective. In other words, you suddenly feel as if you are in direct contact or merging ...

Many are haunted by following intricacies: complexities surrounding "self," the elusive nature of God, the essence of consciousness, faith versus reason, finding meaning in a materialistic world, our ...

The YouTube poet talks to Her.meneutics about the beliefs behind “Sexual Healing.” The 22-year-old Washington native and Mars Hill member spoke with Her.meneutics guest writer Kate Roberts about his ...

We really don’t think too much about metaphors. An intriguing or powerful metaphor might grab hold of us out of a song lyric or a meme but for the most part we don’t talk much about metaphors. If we ...