When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide my eyes from you; even if you offer many prayers, I will not listen. Do you ever consider that God doesn’t hear your prayers? The answer for most ...

Readings: Habakkuk 1:2-3; 2:2-4 2 Timothy 1:6-8, 13-14 Luke 17:5-10 John 3:16 is a hit. Who can say how long people have been cross-stitching it onto pillows or spray-painting it onto structures?

One way to make sure that you are hearing what God is speaking is to understand that God wants to personally … powerfully … and even prophetically speak into your ...

One of the most beautiful and inspiring illustrations of the power of prayer is told about King Chizkiyahu (Berakhot 10). Faced with a divine death sentence that Isaiah describes as irrevocable, ...

Sunday, Jan. 14, is the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time. Mass readings: 1 Samuel 3:3b-10, 19; Psalm 40:2, 4, 7-8, 8-9, 10; 1 Corinthians 6:13c-15a, 17-20; John 1:35-42 The first reading speaks to us of ...

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 ...

In a Christmas song, there is a line, “Do you hear what I hear?” I hear because God is talking to us. No one seems to be listening, because we do not want to know that the fear and suffering and death ...

I am taking some time from my summer Psalms study book to go back to another God Squad book in formation. The teacher of the theology class for juniors at Mercy High School in Middletown, Connecticut, ...

Q: Dear Rabbi Gellman, I’m a junior at Mercy High School in Middletown, Connecticut, and my theology class reads and reflects on your articles. I have a question myself: How do you know if God is ...

We often assume that a theological crisis comes when God does not answer our prayers. After all, how many times have we wondered—quietly or aloud—whether God is listening at all? But last week, as I ...