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 ...

When Thomas Merton was master of scholastics at the Monastery at Gethsemani in 1962, he remarked that “everyone should get spiritual direction.” This was a wildly radical notion for its time. Back ...

“The first ingredient of good conversation is listening. …Listening is the biggest gift we can give one another, but listening with our “whole selves” can be risky, because it might change our ideas ...

This is a companion volume to Lindahl's first book, The Sacred Art of Listening, which provided 40 short, distinct entry points into the realm of real listening. Here, she organizes her thinking ...

I have recently been revisiting the basics of what it means to be a good listener. I recently found myself in an important conversation with a loved one where I did not do my part to listen ...

The teaching of Buddha may have been around for thousands of years but today it's a religion which is stronger than ever - especially here in Wiltshire. The Aukana Trust is a Buddhist charity based in ...

“Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.” — Karl A.