Editorials

The discovery of Christian Science in 1866 marked a decisive turning point for progress in medicine. This fact stood out to me in bold relief not long ago as I was rereading the classic American novel Little Women.

From the standpoint of Christian Science, the whole concept of substance as God, divine Spirit, radically challenges the notion that true wealth can be counted according to material measures. Matter by its very nature, both in specific forms and in its general tendency, is always finite.

Life without rules. Sounds ideal? You might imagine a world where no one tells you what to do, a world where you're free to go where you like and do what you please.

Maurine Campbell was a pioneer Christian Scientist from Des Moines, Iowa. In 1889, she came to Boston to work at The Christian Science Publishing Society—then centered in a single crowded room on the third floor of the Hotel Boylston.

The last couple of months in the year are usually when work winds down, or rushes ahead a bit, in order for us to have additional time around the holidays to spend with friends and relatives. It's not often the time when we launch a significant project.

What are the greatest enemies to health and wholeness? If you asked most people, you would probably get obvious answers such as disease, or accident and injury, or perhaps old age and decrepitude. Some might suggest environmental degradation and pollution.

Have you ever considered the fact that a Christian Science Reading Room exists to alert the community that human experience does not exist in a realm separate from God's government? A Reading Room can be thought of as the leaven of Truth and Love at work, permeating the neighborhood with a sense of Christ's new appearing, bringing healing and order to every aspect of human life. (Of course, it isn't the Reading Room that does this, but the prayer of those manning it and supporting it!) Christ, Truth, reveals that the human and the divine actually coincide.

You don't have to know Hebrew or Greek to be a modern Bible translator. You already have all the qualifications for the job.

Learning how and when to say "Thank you" is an important part of growing up. Mom often told of the time she picked up my sister after a party at her little girlfriend's house.

From the first moment my family tasted Jane's chocolate cake, they were after me to get the recipe. Even people who say they don't like chocolate love Jane's moist, creamy cake.