Church Alive
CHURCH. The structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle.
AFTER A YEAR AND A HALF of post-graduation to over 30 countries, I returned home to America. With no prospects for work, I began to pray deeply and humbly about my purpose.
FOR ME, CHURCH MEANS a family. Church members' love for others and healing work makes church alive.
CHURCH. The structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle.
WHEN OUR DEAR CHURCH MEMBER and friend, former Christian Science Monitor reporter George Merry, passed on last summer, his sister asked if his memorial service could be held at our church. Our members felt that holding this service was the most natural thing in the world, especially since George had grown up in our church (Third Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston), had been a member for over 50 years, and as a public figure had many friends in the community.
AFTER FLYING FOR MORE THAN 30 hours (and changing planes three times), my colleague and I arrived in Jakarta, Indonesia. When we started walking down the large, open corridors to immigration and customs, the bright green colors of the trees and the multicolored, exotic flowers caught my attention immediately.
In October and November 2009, the Christian Science Board of Directors visited Christian Science branch churches and Societies in Japan, South Korea, China, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Singapore. Dilshad Khambatta Eames, an executive assistant for the Christian Science Board of Directors, originally from Pune, India, accompanied them, along with Nancy Price, travel manager for the Board of Directors.
CHURCH. The structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle.
In a Reading Room, you have a sense that God is to be explored, to be known. ONE DAY, I was passing by the Christian Science Reading Room in downtown Norwood, and I thought, "I don't know that much about Christian Science, but I do know a little bit about Mary Baker Eddy.
WE'VE HAD SO MUCH more activity in our Christian Science Reading Room lately—more people coming in, or calling on the phone to get information about us. In regard to the Reading Room, I've been doing a lot of thinking about progress being a law—"the law of God," as Mary Baker Eddy wrote ( Science and Health, p.