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Putting on record insights into the practice of Christian Science.

The healing challenge to orthodoxy

How have some of the major breakthroughs in the arts and the natural sciences come about? Someone has challenged the prevailing orthodoxies. Progress often flows from our questioning of accepted views and popular assumptions.

Banning thoughts not our own

With the dawning of divine Science a little over a century ago, profound changes in mankind's perception of God were initiated. The revelation that came to Mrs.

The gentling of the universe

Life that is divine is limitless and unrestricted and is forever unfolding itself. Man is the infinite expression of this Life, forever unlimited and free.

"How big is Truth?"

The very question would strike most people as odd. Not only is Truth—understood in Christian Science as God— immeasurable.

Notes toward understanding The Mother Church

Perhaps no one fully understands the structure that is Church. Many of us have gone through two points of discovery.

Power and authority to heal

Suppose you had been one of Christ Jesus' close disciples. You would have learned to heal.

The truth about space

Space, in simple terms and ordinary language, designates the interval between objects or events. We begin cultivating a quite different sense of space when we grasp that omnipresent Spirit necessarily occupies all space.

Consistent textbooks

The Bible may seem puzzling to some people. Even to those who have a deep love for it.

Where the grapes of wrath are not

"The Battle Hymn of the Republic" was written by Julia Ward Howe when the United States of America was engaged in the Civil War. It begins: Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword.

The solidness of Truth, the flimsiness of error

After referring to a respected British natural science magazine, an American publication recently summed up the prediction of some physicists investigating the cosmic phenomenon of black holes: ".