The one disciple who understood Jesus’s message with the greatest clarity was John, “The Beloved Disciple.” This is the very John who...

Who was Jesus? All Christian faiths look to him as their Lord and Savior. In the first century, he was given the title of Messiah, which...

I first learned how to pray—and the value of humility—in Christian Science Sunday School. Once, when I was seven or eight years old, I...

The Bible was the book most quoted at the Constitutional Convention in 1787. Indeed, the very ideals that exalted the Declaration of...

It was not a good time to be a prophet in Judea. The tiny nation-state had been occupied for the past 300 years, and the latest occupiers...

If you belong to any one of a number of the protestant religions, you owe a debt of gratitude to Martin Luther. It was he who launched...

by Lynne Blundensen A group of women from Seattle, has been publishing a newsletter about women and religion for several years.  For the...

American educators are scratching their heads over how to get screen-seduced students to read books (the paper kind).  According to the...

"God makes happy those who know that they need Him.  The kingdom of heaven is for them" (Mathew 5:3 -- Worldwide English Version). What...

(This is the second book of Robert Peel's three-volume biography of Mary Baker Eddy). A life-long Bible reader, reared in Calvinist...

There are three things you need to know about the early life of Mary Baker Eddy. First, from young childhood she refused to accept the...

Among Genesis's innumerable meanings is a theory about how truth is gained.  Starting with the famous opening "In the beginning," the...

While their names may not roll off the tongue with the familiarity of John, Paul, George and Ringo--the Fab Four Beatles--in their day...

The Three Wise Men of yore were, of course, the Three Wise Men from the east who came to Bethlehem bearing gifts for the new-born Jesus. ...

After graduating from college, I worked in a retail store for a large company. There seemed to be few prospects for advancement, so I...

The four Gospels are the most important books in the Bible, the culmination of biblical prophecy dating from the days of Moses. All the...

All Bible scholars agree: without the missionary work of the Apostle Paul, Christianity would not have survived the First Century AD, as...

"I was staying with a party of friends in a country house during my visit to England in 1884. On Sunday evening as we sat around the...

It seems ironic, but most of all very cruel, that there should be war once again in the Holy Land; that in these villages, towns and...

Book Review: "Christian Science in East Germany: The Church that Came In from the Cold", by Gregory W. Sandford Can prayer change the...