Last week saw two attacks on communities of faith. The first, at an African American church, was thwarted by security measures the congregation had put in place after Charleston. Undeterred, the ...

Conversion in a Papua New Guinea community. In answer to the first question, some have pointed to social disruption—colonialism, capitalism and globalization—as the reason people are abandoning ...

Have you ever heard the college version of the hymn, “Love Lifted Me?” It goes something like this, “I was sinking deep in sin- wheeeeee!” How did we get to the place where we allowed ourselves to ...

Old Testament professor Gary Anderson explains how sin came to be seen as a debt rather than a weight—and how that shaped Christianity. In the version of the Lord’s Prayer that appears in the Gospel ...

For many Christians, our faith is a Trinitarian faith, meaning that we believe in one God — Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The Trinity is often described as “one God in three persons.” This means there ...

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 ...