Reading for pleasure is declining, and it's changing how people engage with faith and scripture. What does this mean for you?

Preachers ask people to trust the Bible. What I think we wrestle with as ministers today is how people do find the Bible… interesting. I really do believe people feel the pull of ancient texts, ...

Faith Works columnist Jeff Gill preacher reflects on how to share faith's message in a changing world, from street corners to ...

There are churches that are growing, and those that are closing, but if you’ve been reading this column a while, you know the net number of people attending worship services any given week is ...

We’re already heading past the second week of Lent, and Easter is not that far away, on March 31. Whether you observed Ash Wednesday on Feb. 14 or chose to focus on your valentine, and even if you don ...

There’s a key line of the Declaration of Independence, whose passage we mark on the Glorious Fourth of July, now 249 years later: how the people of these United States “are endowed by their Creator ...

What do we see when we look at the horizon from a comfortable place? It’s a distant spot that we may visit, but it can remain just barely in sight for quite a while if we aren’t moving. Especially if ...

Our Protestant brethren say that one is justified by faith once for all and not at all by works. Catholics say that initial justification is “monergistic” (not involving our work to attain it) and by ...

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 ...