Many of us try to balance two key sides of ourselves: a spiritual side and an analytical side. Our spiritual side seeks the sacred—something timeless or ultimately important or beautiful to us. For ...

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 his 2009 book The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the 21st Century, the late Passionist Fr. Thomas Berry reflected on Christians living in an age of climate catastrophe.

Oblate Father Ronald Rolheiser delivers the keynote address during the opening of the National Catholic Educational Association's annual convention in Boston April 11, 2012. Credit: CNS photo/Gregory ...

Idolatry is a strong word. But Heal Thyself: Spirituality, Medicine, and the Distortion of Christianity (Oxford University Press) is strong stuff. It is a forceful critique of a phenomenon that for ...

David Bentley Hart is an Eastern Orthodox scholar of religion and a philosopher, writer, and cultural commentator. He is author and translator of 23 books, including the award-winning Theological ...

A revival historian looks at four possible lessons from Asbury. The best-known evangelical interpreter of revivals, Jonathan Edwards, taught that no one can judge a revival secondhand. Edwards lived ...

The July 24 article, “How Oklahoma’s Superintendent Wants Schools to Teach the Bible,” emphasizes a long-standing issue in the cultural war: How do we teach the moral and ethical principles that are ...