The following prayer offers a satirical look at our shallow view of sin. This superficial prayer is based on a modern "overhaul" of a traditional public confession of sin found in the Book of Common ...

Most of us do not take criticism well. We get defensive, make excuses, or blame others. Nor do we engage in much self reflection or acknowledgement of our personal failings. A lot of churches have ...

That is how this “Prayer of Confession” we said recently at First Presbyterian Church of Shreveport struck me. It started: “Let us pray especially for the less worthy members of the church.” How ...

I am sure there have been hundreds of thousands of books and articles written about prayer: how to pray, models of prayer, answered and unanswered prayers and prayer for specific times and situations ...

. . . I suspect your priest was thinking of the four categories we traditionally use to describe different kinds of prayer: ...

I almost got a crown today. It wasn’t a crown of Glory — more like a dental one. And I did say that I almost got it. I’ve been struggling with a weird pain in my tooth for a couple weeks now and my ...

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 ...