The Religion of Humanity: The Illusion of Our Times, by Pierre Manent, edited and translated by Paul Seaton(St. Augustine’s Press, 240 pp., $40) The now-ubiquitous term “woke” suggests that leftism ...

The most important lesson that the study of history teaches us is contingency. Things did not have to turn out the way they did. Take, for instance, the answer that our civilization has historically ...

U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Deb Haaland, on June 22, 2021, directed the Department of the Interior to investigate the Federal Indian boarding school system. A report released this month showed ...

Few questions continue to perplex the thoughtful believer of present-day Christendom as much as the age-old inquiry into the relationship between faith and works. This perplexity seems to be augmented ...

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 ...

Our redemption, it turns out, began long before Calvary. The central character of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Little Mermaid dreams of giving up her life in the sea to find love on dry ...

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 ...

At the 200th anniversary of his birth, Charles Darwin's theory of human evolution continues to challenge and inspire all who contemplate the human condition, and especially the role of religion and ...

This past weekend during worship, I opened space in the sermon for a time of question and answer with the congregation. Although I don't do this every week, I do find it fruitful, first because people ...

As we have seen, Thomasius had been driven, under a capital charge, from a leading chair in a renowned university to seek whatever chance might offer in a little town comparatively unknown. To his ...

Christians, Muslims and Jews working and praying together to provide homes for two families — it almost seemed silly to write about people of different religions uniting for a common cause, as though ...