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 ...

Jesus, or Jesus Christ, was a 1 st century preacher and religious leader who is revered in Christianity. According to Christians, Jesus is considered the incarnation of God, and his teachings are ...

Christena Cleveland spent much of her childhood in an evangelical church surrounded by traditional images of a porcelain-skinned and flaxen-haired Jesus. But one day she came across a portrayal of ...

Who is Jesus Christ? This weekend, his 2.3 billion followers will observe Easter, the Christian high holy day marking his resurrection from death. Every decade or so, a cottage industry of scholars, ...

In her new book, “Miracles and Wonder,” Elaine Pagels tries to find the man behind the faith. By Jack Hanson Jack Hanson is a writer and editor and a scholar of religion, literature and culture. When ...

Every Christian sooner or later has to ask the question, "Who was Jesus really?" And we ask this in our age in a special way because we are very historically oriented. We are modern, or perhaps ...

Who was Jesus? Who is he? The Princeton scholar of religion Elaine Pagels links those two questions in her newest work, Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus (2025). And rightly so, ...