On the night before Thanksgiving, a clergy friend and I went to hear maverick preacher Rob Bell, who is touring the country on his “The Gods Aren’t Angry Tour.” Most folks were home dressing their ...

Three weeks before Lent begins each year, the Eastern Orthodox Church celebrates the Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee (Luke 18:9–14). For Orthodox Christians, this parable, in which a Pharisee ...

When we try to live up to others’ standards of righteousness, we miss the life Christ intended. As believers, we sometimes feel pressured to act in certain ways, fit in with certain norms, or ...

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 ...

A critical inspection of Psalms 14, 53 and Isaiah 64, the places where Paul derived his notion of ‘no one is righteous’ as in Rom 3:10, shows that the writers maintain the existence of righteous and ...

The Son of Man will send his angels ... with a breakbeat. (Photo by KMazur/WireImage for The Recording Academy via Getty Images If Christ then was Biggie (apologies to 2Pac), the twelve apostles — ...