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Despair over the news headlines led to prayer that heals.

Today some people are beginning to acknowledge healing methods beyond traditional medical care. Might Jesus’ method of healing become more widely embraced? 

A woman with a speech impediment finds freedom of expression through Christian Science.

How persistent prayer led to finding the right buyer.

One evening after church, when a friend and I paused to look up at the stars, I was unexpectedly filled with a deep sense of the vastness of the universe and a spiritual oneness—an inclusiveness with it—far greater and different from those times when it seems as if you can almost touch them.   Almost a year later, someone said to me that everything we see is already in our consciousness.

What does it mean to “take up the argument”? This was my first thought when I read the request from Michael Pabst in his editorial that we take up the argument that Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy is a salable and readable book—a book with a mission. He quoted from a letter by Mrs.

Many years ago a Christian Science friend asked me if I would be interested in doing a performance of the Gospel According to St. John.

As I was sitting in a Wednesday evening testimony meeting at my local Christian Science church recently, I wondered, “What if church was thought of as a conversation?” The readings and the testimonies shared, along with the silent spaces in between, are not unlike a conversation among loving friends. But being at church that evening felt like a deeper, more meaningful conversation—the kind where we are reminded that the most important dialogue is the one between God and us.

Recently I stopped by a nail salon to get a manicure. It was a spur-of-the-moment decision, so I had no reading materials with me.

When I’m challenged by tough situations and am looking for healing, like most Christian Scientists I turn to God. I pray to feel His allness—because I know the spiritual fact of my oneness with this allness dissolves any material misconceptions I’m holding on to.