Skip to main content Skip to search Skip to header Skip to footer
All columns & sections

Articles

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

The art of spiritualizing thought

“It’s time to spiritualize thought. ” These words resounded within me as I worked on a complicated professional undertaking that affected many people.

Spiritually inspired and spontaneous healing

What does it mean to express unfathomable Mind, God? It means thought is unconfined, illimitable, unbounded, and ever expanding. This immeasurable Mind is infinitely vast, without beginning or ending.

Our covenant with God

Did you know that you have a sacred contract with God? The Bible refers to it as a covenant. God’s covenants present His promises to His beloved children, including each of us.

Where am I really?

Traveling some distance by air and returning home after a short period of time may be a familiar scenario for many travelers. Years ago, I dearly wanted to travel from the United Kingdom to another country to attend my Christian Science students’ association meeting, but I could only spare a weekend to undertake this journey.

“Oh, no!” can bring healing

Have you ever thought that the two simple words “Oh, no!” with a God-inspired thought behind them can prepare the way for healing? Well, they can! Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy has this to say about successfully overcoming challenges: “Suffering is no less a mental condition than is enjoyment. You cause bodily sufferings and increase them by admitting their reality and continuance, as directly as you enhance your joys by believing them to be real and continuous” ( p.

God is my pilot

Ever since my husband retired, we usually take the car together when we go anywhere. He drives the longer distances, while I drive short trips to run errands.

A rescue in the mountains

A couple of years ago my wife and I decided to take a late-autumn, seven-mile loop hike in the mountains near our home. Our midday start kept us mindful of sundown.

In the Preface of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures , which sets forth the divine Science of Mind-healing that Jesus practiced, Mary Baker Eddy wrote, “Future ages must declare what the pioneer has accomplished” ( p. vii ).

The kingdom’s child

Christ Jesus, the long-promised Messiah, preached that the kingdom of God is at hand. What hope that must have ignited in the hearts of a God-loving people oppressed by pagan Rome! Yet at one point Jesus’ disciples asked him who was the greatest in that kingdom, and he pulled the rug out from under that inquiry by placing a little child before them.

The power of godly thinking

“How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand” (Psalms 139:17, 18, New International Version). Knowing that God, divine Mind, is forever communicating to us and that God’s thoughts are revelatory and unstoppable is truly liberating.