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 ...

Former Governor of Utah and Ambassador to China, Jon Huntsman, announced his candidacy for president using the same backdrop that Ronald Reagan once chose, New York’s Statue of Liberty. Michelle ...

The other day my class was discussing George Herbert’s Humilitie, a poetic dream-vision in which the virtues, personified as court officials, accept “tokens of submission” from beasts and fowls who ...

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 ...

Many years ago we had staying with us a clergyman to whom I listened with close attention. One day he spoke of someone as “having the rare grace of humility.” I think he must have meant that this ...

Cardinal Robert McElroy used his first homily after receiving a red hat from Pope Francis to emphasize that humility is one of the chief challenges and callings of the Christian life. Christian ...

Jesus is the reason to stop concentrating on ourselves. Innumerable Christmas devotionals point out the humble circumstances of Jesus' birth—among shepherds, in a crude stable, with a feed trough for ...

Fostering humility, intellectual humility in particular, is a way to reduce congregational conflict, according to recent studies. New research suggests that the more pastors are perceived to be ...