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

Decades of Christian Science healing

In the 1920s, my parents were vacationing with my two sisters and me in the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York. They were looking for a place to spend the night and saw a sign for a guesthouse, where they decided to stay.

Prayer and pickleball

An avid pickleball player shares how she prayed after she sees an opponent experience an injury on the court. 

Praying before studying the Bible Lesson

Entering the “sanctuary of Spirit” before studying the Christian Science Bible Lesson, we shut out distractions and pressures and open our hearts to God’s healing messages of Truth and Love. Our time with the Lesson is holy.

Our place of safety

One day when I was in high school, I was protected from being caught up in a school riot. My mother was a Christian Scientist, and she prayed for my sisters and me every day.

The swimming pool ball, the mirror image, and the shadow

Every bit of Science  and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy has infinite depths of inspiration and practical application, but it is always a delight to me when something that I have understood and loved at one level takes on fresh meaning, and powerful inspiration is breathed into my healing work. Countless spiritual lessons can be learned from how we interpret the world around us.

Faster than a bullet train

A Christian Scientist who was on the bullet train to Kyoto, Japan, shares how she prayed when she lost sight of her sister. She learns that God’s help is faster than a bullet train. 

Thoughts on grace

What does grace mean to you? And what does grace mean in the study and practice of Christian Science?

When God speaks

Success in healing is dependent upon thought being made to move—a quickening of thought, if you will. And what we understand about how God communicates to us makes all the difference.

Practice and Progress

On February 22, 1895, Mary Baker Eddy wrote to her student Laura E. Sargent, evidently answering a question as to how one could best make progress in the practice of Christian Science: “What you and all students need most to advance their growth is practice healing the sick[.

When we see others as they are

At a Christian Science lecture I attended, the lecturer shared an experience he’d had leading an outdoor adventure course for youth. A young man in the course persistently displayed hostility toward him and the rest of the group.