This year reminded us that we are vulnerable creatures able to be felled by multiple causes, from the tiniest virus to the greatest natural forces of earth, water, fire and wind. Modern science often ...

Consider the Code of Hammurabi, from that 18th-century B.C.E. King of Babylonia. What was the life of a servant’s child worth, from its perspective? A mere two shekels. “If he strike the maid-servant ...

When The New Yorker magazine was peerless for its combination of erudition and wit, it ran a cartoon of Lilliputians contemplating Gulliver, whom they had fastened to the ground with ropes: “Either he ...

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 ...

Theology is the disciplined reflection on the mystery of God in the world and on the traditions of belief, worship, and ethics that shape communities of faith. It explicitly reinforces the tradition ...

God, to me, is not a person, judging us from far above. God is the divinity within each of us and all around us. Spiritual beliefs I believe that each one of us is spiritual, but we can choose to ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — The Global Church Divinity School (GCDS), an online pastor training resource launched in 2001 by the Global Church Network (GCN), is excited to announce a formal partnership with ...