There was a hymn we used to sing when I was a child, one of those lusty, murderous chants characteristic of the Anglican Church in its high-Victorian pomp. Written in 1894, it vibrates with imperial ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Marilynne Robinson is admired in Britain by those who appreciate her sparsely but beautifully written novels ...

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 ...

Creationists are often accused of believing that the whole Bible should be taken literally. The Old Testament opens with an account of creation, starting with what is arguably the most memorable line ...

Marilynne Robinson’s novels always leave me with a visceral impression of celestial light. Heavenly bulbs seem to switch on at climactic moments, showing a world as undimmed as it was at Creation. “I ...

And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son: and he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground ...

More than 100 international researchers recently convened for a three-day symposium to discuss new evidence that the Biblical ark from the book of Genesis made landfall at Mount Ararat in Turkey, ...