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 ...

Just over seventy years ago, in the autumn of 1948, several hundred people gathered at noon across seven consecutive Saturdays in Cambridge. The location was a lecture hall on Mill Lane, and they were ...

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 other day my class was discussing George Herbert’s Humilitie, a poetic dream-vision in which the virtues, personified as court officials, accept “tokens of submission” from beasts and fowls who ...

John Dickson is Founding Scholar of the Centre for Public Christianity, and visiting lecturer in the Department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies at the University of Sydney. When Sir Edmund ...

Christian thinkers have long wrestled with what it means to claim that the God of Jesus Christ is for us. In a dense, probing work of constructive theology, Matthew A. Wilcoxen asks: What if humility ...

Being 90 doesn’t excuse you. Are you sinless? Will you cast the first stone? Regarding the letter that appeared in the Reporter-Herald on July 10, 2025. The God of Israel humbled himself to earth in ...

From everything I’ve read and been told, you should never expect that you can live a perfect life. Flaws, faults, mistakes and miscues are inevitable and cannot be avoided no matter how hard you try.

As a professor, I know you’re under pressure. Let me share what I’ve learned in 20 years in the classroom. College comes with many pressures: pressure to perform. Pressure to fit in. Pressure to find ...