The sanctity and security of Al-Aqsa is once again under threat, as it was during the lifetime of the great scholar ...

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 ...

The important thing about a religion, said C.S. Lewis, is not whether it makes one feel good, but whether it is true. This observation came to mind while reading a recent piece by Jesuit Father James ...

Raymond Baker offers some good news amid the gloom of global terrorism, opening up the little-known world of wasatiyya—or centrist—Islam. It is the Islam of the “new” intellectuals of the “Islamic ...

Editor’s note: This interview with 2013 HBI Scholar-in-Residence Sarah Eltantawi is reprinted with permission from Humanities Washington. Teaching the history of the world's second-largest religion, ...