Faced with declining membership, aging buildings and large, underutilized properties, many U.S. houses of worship have closed ...

A peculiar set of circumstances like cheap mobile phones and globally low data tariffs is helping a multi-ethnic, ...

Metal imprint stamps sit on another desk, with the letters spelling out “H-o-l-y B-i-b-l-e.” The workshop is home to Rocky ...

Friedrich Merz, the conservative Christian Democrat Union (CDU ... In 1972, West Germany’s Willy Brandt used a motion of confidence to rally his coalition, win public trust, and achieve a ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

The best nonfiction books of the year tackle undeniably difficult topics. Many are personal stories about surviving the unthinkable. Salman Rushdie describes the violent attack that nearly killed him.

This year’s favorite books give us a chance to do just that ... This is the kind of gaffe that makes you wonder what’s happened to your memory, when you used to have such good recall. You may even ...

From a deep dive on a fatal space shuttle disaster to a study of a dozen iconic trees, these are our favorite titles this year Joe Spring, Riley Black, Shi En Kim, Dan Falk, Christian Elliott and ...

Here are the year’s most notable picture, chapter and middle grade books, selected by our children ... her heroine from the imagination of Hans Christian Andersen, relieving her of the agony ...

In “The Alaska Sanders Affair,” the Swiss author Joël Dicker brings back the two leads from an earlier book—the writer Marcus Goldman and the New Hampshire police detective Perry Gahalowood ...

Among the book’s many salient and timely contentions: Modern assumptions about the president’s role notwithstanding, the Founders never intended the president to be a uniting force in the country.

This new Bible movie portrays the struggles of belief in Victoria, played by Christian celebrity Ashley Bratcher, who struggles with emotional crises, such as a shaky faith, family losses, and a ...