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 ...

Etty Hillesum was murdered in Auschwitz in 1943 at the age of 29, but not before she attained remarkable spiritual maturity. Her astonishingly revealing personal diaries and letters record that, over ...

Weeping brings relief, and often heralds growth. In 1985, Barack Obama became a community organizer in Chicago. Although this option felt impulsive and intuitive, he later wrote, "My choices were ...

New York Times bestselling author Lee Strobel’s journey to his faith in Jesus Christ is well documented. A highly successful editor at The Chicago Tribune, Strobel was an atheist who set out to prove ...