I sit with Brother Martin Gonzales, over sixty years a monk and reflecting on the nearness of life’s end. We are at Our Lady of Guadalupe Trappist Abbey on a day when the perfume of magnolias ...

A devotion by a favorite author that I religiously read daily jarred me to an awakening earlier this week. It reminded me that often when we are searching for a glimpse of the heavenly kingdom ...

The human being takes longer to mature than any other animal. An antelope can drop out of its mother’s womb, stand, and master the basics of running and eating in a matter of hours. Human babies, in ...

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 ...

The small marble table from a Roman-era home was adorned with carved acanthus leaves and the body of Dionysus. When I saw it in the archaeological museum of Thessaloniki, Greece, I broke down crying, ...

"Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me’" (John 14:6). This Bible verse comes from the Gospel of John, one of the four gospel ...

When she said, “I have reached moral perfection,” I almost laughed out loud. She was quite sincere and she was old enough to be my mother, so I held my tongue in respect. I’ve learned that one can be ...

After just one listen, we can come away from hearing Joan Osborne’s 1995 hit “One of Us” thinking the song’s message is abundantly clear. “One of Us” asks listeners to imagine that we can see God in ...