Childlike receptivity enables us to learn about and experience spiritual, harmonious reality.

I’m Patti Payne and this is my perspective: Once a U.S. senator and a three-time governor, Dan Evans died last week. He was 98 years old. It was all over the national news and, of course, the local ...

“We don’t see things as they are. We see things as we are.” — Rav Shmuel in the Talmud Is it possible to perceive things “as they are,” or are all our perceptions distorted by the limitations of our ...

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 ...

This became crystal clear to me several years ago. A Duke senior was one of the scripture readers for a Sunday morning worship service in Duke Chapel. That morning, he was assigned to read a portion ...

The classical devotional text of the 14th century by Thomas a Kempis advises readers to be clear that there is much they don’t know and to admit their ignorance. He writes that “our opinions, our ...

What Thomas Levenson might also have noted is that, as we learn more about the universe using increasingly powerful tools, we are finding more surprises that confound us than ones that confirm our ...

“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed …” — Wallace Stegner The goal of the Wilderness Act, now celebrating its 60th birthday, was to set ...

I love these first weeks of the year when many of the emails I receive begin with a “Happy New Year” greeting. I enjoy reading and returning these wishes, and this year, because of an essay I’ve been ...

Relevant beyond health care, cultural humility can more appropriately be thought of as a basic approach toward others; an approach that would be helpful on both sides of the current social dialogue.