After multiple requests from tribal citizens about creating prayers in Okáxpa, Mary Jacobs and others from the Quapaw Nation’s language department took action. “It became an idea last fall because I ...

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 ...

In Lent’s middle stretch, when prayer can falter, the saints call us back to deeper communion with the God who dwells within us.

The personal prayer of believers is ordered and flows from the public prayer of the Church. The public prayer and worship of God is the height of the spiritual life. There is no contradiction between ...

Each High Holiday season, we return to the same liturgy. Year after year, the same words, often the same tunes. The repetition and comfort in the familiarity of the prayers often highlights what we ...

In simpler ages of faith, men found it as natural and normal to pray as to till a field or yoke a brace of oxen. But prayer, like good conversation, seems to be one of the lost arts of the 20th ...