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Exploring in depth what Christian Science is and how it heals.

Proving Principle

Sometimes it may seem that what we want most in life is healing. Perhaps we’ve struggled with a long-term illness or condition.

Defined by God, not material history

The Apostle Paul tells us that if we are “in Christ,” we are “a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” ( II Corinthians 5:17 ). Some Bible commentaries put forth the idea that to be “in Christ” is to be “united” with Christ.

Soul, body, the Holy Ghost—and healing

Sometimes ideas converge in a new and inspiring way that brings spiritual light right at the moment we need it. Recently, while flying at 38,000 feet on a transatlantic flight, I had an insight about the relation between Soul, body, and the Holy Ghost that brought about an instantaneous healing.

When church came alive

“This is dull. ” Honestly, that was my response when I left the Christian Science Sunday School at the age of twenty and started to attend the Sunday services at my branch church.

Let’s get tough with the ‘old man’

The Apostle Paul talks about the need to “put off the old man” so we can “put on the new man. ” He says, “Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him” ( Colossians 3:9, 10 ).

Our Church preaches God’s perfect man

The author shows how “our Church feeds the Christ-hungry with the pure truths of God and spiritual man, which alone will save mankind from destructive materialism.”

What defeats organized evil

Have you heard the phrase “Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty”? Author Anne Herbert wrote it on a restaurant place mat in Sausalito, California, in 1982, and it went on to become the title of a book she coauthored as well as a popular motto.   No doubt the world would be a much better place if we all practiced individual kindness every day! Yet random human attempts to do good, as laudable as they are, certainly are not enough to confront and eradicate organized evil, especially the organized terror that is confronting the world these days on the basis of radical and misplaced theological hatred.

Brotherhood in Church

One particular group of people has a type of bond that is perhaps unequaled by any other. This group is found in a Christian Science church service.

‘Mary Baker Eddy Mentioned Them’: St. Augustine

Mary Baker Eddy , the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, comments in her  Message to The Mother Church for 1901: “Of the ancient writers since the first century of the Christian era perhaps none lived a more devout Christian life up to his highest understanding than St. Augustine” ( p.

Multiple minds? Or one Mind?

Many years ago , while working as a Christian Science practitioner on a case that wasn’t moving quickly toward healing, I felt sure that the clarification of one point in the metaphysical laws that underlie healing held the key to progress: “How does what I am knowing, affirming, praying, here, reach and impact the person asking for help through prayer over there?”  I called and asked a colleague, a fellow practitioner, and she replied by asking me two questions: “How many minds are there? How many consciousnesses?” I said, “Stop. Say no more.