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What knowledge would be available to us without sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch? Could we experience materiality, or even know of an existence in a corporeal body? In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, the Discoverer of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, states, “All human knowledge and material sense must be gained from the five corporeal senses” ( p. 532 ).

One night, many years ago, when a friend came to visit, he invited me to have sex with him. Although I cared very deeply for the man, he knew that I believe that celibacy outside of marriage is an expression of spiritual integrity.

It’s been happening more and more frequently. I’m going about a normal day when a small spiritual insight, barely discernible, comes to me.

One winter evening, while I was driving back to my college with two friends after an evening out, my car hit a patch of ice and spun out. We were all pretty scared, but I was so grateful that we were very quiet and nobody panicked.

For many months I had been deeply contemplating the metaphysical concept that there is no matter. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer of Christian Science, is adamant on this point.

Growing up in a devoted family of Christian Scientists, I resonated positively to this call to duty—to love God with all my heart, to faithfully follow the Leader of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, to serve The Mother Church and my branch Church of Christ, Scientist, consistently, and to embrace the healing practice of Christian Science.   In her writings, Mrs.

I was relatively new in my study of Christian Science when I went back to university to see if I wanted to pursue getting an MFA. Almost immediately, I was faced with some challenges.

As a young sailor away from home for the first time in my life, I was excited and enthusiastic about my new career. I had just finished my first training school after boot camp, and I was eager to attend my next school, which was to be the basis for my Navy vocation.

A church congregation presents a Christian Science lecture, not for itself, but to bless its neighbor. In this way, lectures are gifts of unconditional love.

One morning a few years ago, I awoke with a headache. Despite a full schedule, I decided to stay home and pray with Mary Baker Eddy’s statement from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, “Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need” ( p.