Organic tools found at South Africa’s Border Cave include (a) wooden digging sticks, (b) poison applicator, (c) bone arrow point, (d) notched bones, (e) lump of beeswax mixed with resin and (f) beads ...

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 ...

An international team of researchers, including scientists from Wits University, have substantially increased the age at which we can trace the emergence of modern culture, all thanks to the San ...

It’s a typical Saturday afternoon in the winter of 1974, and my mother, my younger sister, and I are wandering the halls of our town’s large shopping mall when, seemingly out of nowhere, a classmate ...

In a recent post, I discussed some famous answers to the question: “What’s wrong with life today?” Included in those answers were such themes as the decline of community, meaninglessness, marginality ...

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