They abandoned their relationships, jobs and lives for a total devotion to God and their fellow sisters. What can we learn ...

When we narrate the history of the church from the perspective of Black nuns,” says historian Shannen Dee Williams, “myths ...

Reflections on resilience: Achill Island in the 1950s was a place where survival depended on resourcefulness, hard work, and ...

Subscriptions to the Elgin Symphony Orchestra’s 76th season Classics Series went on sale Friday, Feb. 21.

For Black writers and creatives like me, Black History Month (BHM) can be something like the Christmas season. Joy permeates ...

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After three years in Memphis, I went to Trinity Evangelical Divinity School north of Chicago. I soon noticed there were fewer than ten Black students from the United States. I was very excited to be ...

At the Unitarian church where Vivekananda lectured in his landmark 1900 tour of California, clergy and congregants credit the ...

By Elizabeth Dias Elizabeth Dias is the national religion correspondent and has reported on Christian aid work in countries including Sudan, North Korea and Cuba. Since World War II, as refugees ...

Frassati, born in 1901 in Turin, Italy, died at the young age of 24, after contracting polio, 100 years ago this July. 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 ...