“Christ on the Mount of Olives,” by Josef Untersberger. (Credit: Public domain.) Listen The call to prayer requires teaching and encouragement. While we were made by God and for God, and have a ...

I remember as a child telling my mother about a camping scene I had just read in a book. I described the scent of the evergreens and the soft crush of dried pine needles beneath brown suede shoes. “It ...

An Interview with Bishop Andrew Cozzens about the Oct. 7 14th-annual Worldwide Children’s Eucharistic Holy Hour. Above, Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington with the children who participated in the ...

Sycamore Township’s Candy Marballi has used her remarkable talent for helping children to start them on the road to a spiritual awakening that will serve them for the rest of their lives. There are ...

Praying is a central and vital part of religion. But how do you teach and explain prayer to children? Cheri Fuller, writing on churchleaders.com, says one way of explaining prayer to small children is ...

“When you pray, go away by yourself, shut the door behind you, and pray to your Father in private.”—Matthew 6:6 When you were a child, you may have been taught a short prayer. It might have been this ...

The following is a collection of prayers related to the start of school. As both a professor of worship and a parent of two school-age children, I tried to imagine the sorts of things that parents and ...

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 ...

Keys for Kids Ministries is preparing for the New Year with a plan to reach more kids with the truth of Jesus Christ ...