Calvin professor of philosophy and Worship Institute research fellow James K.A. Smith has written a new book called Letters to a Young Calvinist: An Invitation to the Reformed Tradition. At just 160 ...

Screenwriter and director Paul Schrader, of “Taxi Driver” and “American Gigolo” fame, didn’t see a movie at the theater until he was a teenager. He was raised in Grand Rapids, Mich., by strict ...

(RNS) — Wyatt Reynolds spent years trying to save his soul. As a 7-year-old, he prayed nightly before bed. He went to church faithfully in his south Georgia community but was never convinced that he ...

John Calvin was a Frenchman, but he is being remembered in Geneva this week because it was here that he built Calvinism. Invited to reform the city in 1541, almost as what would now be called 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 Monitor ...

Five hundred years after the birth of French Protestant theologian John Calvin, his teachings seem more topical than ever. Hard work and frugality, the values espoused by Calvinism, are back in ...

In the little French hilltop monastery of Taize, a retreat was in progress last week. At 3:30 a.m. the cowled, white-robed brothers filed into the dwarfish Romanesque church. Their young voices softly ...