Have you considered that most individuals are convinced that what they believe is true, and all who disagree with them are not as wise as they are? What is your personal view about this? May I ask, ...

In recent months, the political divide on the national scene appears to be widening. Instead of listening to one another and seeking to understand differing viewpoints, we often talk over each other ...

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 ...

Beauty is a door that leads to God. Cardinal Danneels, the archbishop emeritus of Brussels, writes: "God is Truth, Holiness and Moral Perfection, but God is also Beauty. One can find God through the ...

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 ...

Passover is our holiday of freedom. Our tradition provides a wonderful insight on the nature of freedom through a play on words. We find this wordplay in the Talmud, based on Exodus 31:16. That verse ...

Obedience is not a popular word in our modern world. It can sound restrictive, limiting, or even oppressive. Yet in Sacred Scripture, obedience is presented not as weakness but as strength, not as ...

In Plato’s Cratylus, on the philosophy of language, Socrates says that aletheia (Greek, ‘truth’) is a compression of the phrase ‘a wandering that is divine.’ Since Plato, many thinkers have spoken of ...

Leo Tolstoy's short story God Sees the Truth but Waits is a timeless reflection on the moral presence of God in human life. Through the tragic life of Aksionov, a man wrongfully imprisoned, Tolstoy ...