What Christian philosophers—and my daughter’s birth—taught me about petitionary prayer. On the day of my daughter’s birth, I felt abandoned by God. My wife had been induced the night before and had ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This is Italian artist Pompeo Batoni’s vision of God with a dove symbolizing the Holy Spirit. Batoni lived from 1708-87. (Courtesy ...

Have you noticed it’s often very difficult to talk rationally and logically about the things that are most real to us? Great beauty, great love, great pain, great fear, great joy: it’s hard to talk ...