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

Fifteen years of patience

Listening to ideas from God enabled this professor to publish a series of books over the course of 15 years, where he patiently prayed to know what to write and how to best help students of his academic institution. 

We must gravitate Godward—it’s a law

The Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, may not have been an institutionally educated scholar of the natural sciences, but I find her insights about the laws of nature and their applied relevance to health and human affairs to be breathtaking. Take her statement in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, “Mortals must gravitate Godward, their affections and aims grow spiritual.

There is only one I

This author realized more of the allness of God and it healed her of back pain.

Is there any way I can help?

Christian Scientists don’t treat others metaphysically without their consent, but we can still pray generally to see the truth about God and all of His creation.

Christian Science nursing: A priceless gift

When a relative stays at a Christian Science nursing facility, she finds quick healing. 

Transforming our universe

Grasping after shadows as if they were substance, we never find the actual stuff of the universe: spiritual ideas. To the extent we seek after these divine ideas for their own sake, however, their appropriate human expression will surely appear. 

“Remember the oriole”

A woman once remarked to the famous naturalist John Burroughs that she didn’t have any birds in her garden. Not a one.

A student’s prayers stop a school fight

My teenage son had been threatened by a fellow classmate and urged to engage in a fistfight after school. He hardly knew the other student, but agreed to meet him—to face him and tell him there wouldn’t be any fight.

Lifted by the example of others

A Christian Science Sunday School teacher once pointed out to our class of young teens that Jesus never instructed his followers, “Worship me. ” Rather, he counseled them, “Follow me” and “Heal the sick” ( Matthew 4:19; 10:8 ).

Going to the books

To learn what brings about healings and to understand divine Science, it’s important to go to the books—the Bible, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, and Mary Baker Eddy’s other writings. We shouldn’t look to other people’s testimonies for guides or formulas for how we should pray.