Paul J. Schutz, is an assistant professor of religious studies at Santa Clara University. Thoughts are his own. In his famous 1967 essay, “The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis,” historian Lynn ...

A few weeks ago a man I met told me that he grew up in a big Catholic family, but once he started learning more about science as a teenager, he left Christianity behind. He couldn’t reconcile 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 ...

During the High Holidays, we recite the prayer, “(God Almighty) … Be a King and reign over the entire world with Your honor, … let every created being recognize You as Its Creator.” In contemporary ...

Is our cosmos the whole kaboodle, or is it merely one among an infinite number of universes? Frederick Forsyth’s 1971 thriller The Day of the Jackal tells the story of a fiendishly clever assassin who ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — When we think about the scientific theory of the creation of the universe, we often picture a massive explosion in association with the Big Bang theory, but that is not where ...

This raucous meeting, which took place exactly 1700 years ago, was one of the most important in Christian history. Icon depicting the Emperor Constantine and the fathers of the Council of Nicaea of ...