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.

Since November 2001, Judy Macpherson, the Committee in Berksire, England, has posted almost 1. 500 messages on a popular UK website devoted to spirituality and health issues.

AN ACTIVE WRITER IN FLORIDA

Beverly Peake is an individual Christian Scientist who takes her responsibility to participate in the system of Committee work seriously. Her letters to the editor have been published in The Miami Herald and the Coral Gables Gazette.

Doors to parliament have opened where doors had never even been ajar, reports Edmund Goltman, the Committee for KwaZulu/Natal province in South Africa. "Up until October 2003, we had no direct contact in KZN with government or the legislature," says Mr.

AN INTERNATIONAL TEAM

Across the world, 153 local Committees on Publication all work under the direction of the office of the Manager of the Committees on Publication in Boston. These offices, located in 49 countries on six continents, are supported by more than 1,500 Assistant Committees.

LOCALLY FUNDING THE MISSION

It's clear from the Eddy-Farlow correspondence that, from the beginning, local branch churches and Christian Science societies in the jurisdiction of a Committee on publication were to take responsibility for financial support of the Committee's work. The Christian Science Sentinel of July 21, 1906, described this responsibility: "It should be borne in mind that this work cannot be carried on without expense, and this expense, when divided pro rata among the membership of the branch churches throughout a whole State, is but a small item for each one, and yet it is as necessary to the prosperity of the local churches as is any other outlay.

A search on Afred Farlow's name in the database containing Mary Baker Eddy's previously unpublished writings yields over 700 documents. Farlow also wrote hundreds of letters and reports to Mrs.

Article XXXIII Duties. Sect.

Advancing public access to spiritual healing in the Information Age

LOOKING BACK In self-defense Boston, March 16, 1885. She was not only defending herself.

Is there more than one way to pray?

trust It was early December and my daughters' rehearsals for Christmas programs were in full swing. One night at dinner, my middle daughter looked flushed, and told her father and me that her head hurt and her throat felt sore.

For many college students, the month of August is all about rest and relaxation, the last hurrah before returning to school and the vicious cycle of sleep deprivation, exams, and microwave pizza. But for students who attended the 2004 CSO Leadership Invitational at The Mother Church, August was a month of focus, divine inspiration, and spirited discussion.