Most Christians believe that churches are called to make a public witness to their faith, but they disagree sharply about what shape that witness should take. In her book The Church for the World: A ...

John is a self-described atheist Roman Catholic. He earned a Ph.D. in philosophy at an Ivy League university and is a philosophy professor at a small college. We met several years ago at a research ...

To effectively witness to the Gospel, Christians need to be consistent in what they believe, how they live, and what they preach, Pope Francis said Wednesday. “The witness of an authentically ...

When children and grandchildren live outside Church teaching, how can grandparents remain loving without compromising the ...

These are times of searching for persons interested in relating Christianity to higher education. Those involved with secular institutions of learning are deeply concerned with projecting an authentic ...

What does the world need in a new pope? This is not the primary question facing the cardinals, and it is a question that would have been inconceivable before the Second Vatican Council reclaimed the ...

To be a Christian witness in the ancient church was to make known the euangelion, literally “good news” or “gospel,” from which we derive our word evangelization. The Acts of the Apostles reports a ...

The question whether modern Israel practices mere religious tolerance, coupled with periodic intolerances, rather than implenting the program of religious freedom announced in the Proclamation of ...

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 ...

Dalrymple wrote, “Out of love for Jesus and his church, not for political partisanship or intellectual elitism, this is why we feel compelled to say that the alliance of American evangelicalism with ...

In the soft haze of dawn, as the world held its breath between darkness and light, Mary Magdalene walked alone toward a tomb. Her heart heavy with grief, she carried spices to anoint a body, expecting ...

For the last year, students and faculty have debated the “fundamentalist takeover” at Cedarville University in Ohio. The Christian school, with 3,400 students, witnessed an actual coup in which two ...