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 ...

In Luke 10:27 and Mark 12:30, we notice that both passages use a fourfold description to explain how we are to love God: Heart, soul, strength, and mind. In the Old Testament we find a similar command ...

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 ...

Faith often looks the same from the outside. Folded hands. Closed eyes. Temple bells. Morning aarti. But underneath these shared rituals, the relationship people carry with God can be very different.

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 ...

The body of Saint John Mary Vianney, entombed above the main altar in the Basilica at Ars, France. The face is covered with a wax mask. (Credit: Wikimedia.) Listen The spiritual life is enriched by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After all, love—in all its forms—is vital. As Paul said in 1 Corinthians 13:13, faith, hope and love abide, “but the greatest of ...

Photo by Aaron Burden, courtesy of Unsplash. A Reflection for Saturday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time You can find today’s readings here. “Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD alone!

If I looked at your life, would I be able to tell you are a Christian? What makes us stand out as followers of Christ? And, my friend, what would that evidence be? Here’s what Jesus said in John 13: ...

This feature is only available to members. Join now for full online access. For a word that we use so often, love is a very difficult word for us to define. I looked up love in the dictionary on my ...