Of Good Report

When our Christian Science chaplain left the interfaith body at the University of Victoria on Vancouver Island about nine years ago, my church wanted me to step in. I was happy to accept, since I’d served in another interfaith group.

I was going through the Christian Science Bible Lesson-Sermon in French with a voice coach around 10:30 one morning when I found I had to stop what I was doing to write down a thought that would not let me alone: “There is nothing outside of Mind. ” At around one o’clock that afternoon my phone rang.

My three-and-a-half-year-old granddaughter had stayed overnight at my home, but never for five days. By the third day she was beginning to be a bit weepy about missing Mommy and Daddy and was getting generally grumpy, including about going to church, which she had attended only once before.

When praying the Lord’s Prayer every morning, I enfold the community in this prayer, knowing that God is not just my Father, but our Father—the Father of all the dear people in our country. I acknowledge our true identity as children of God, and that His children express honesty, gentleness, usefulness, kindness, and purity of thought.

Tema is a harbor town in Ghana, where I have a home. The route I take to church in Tema takes you up a little hill, and when you round the corner at the top of the hill, you face the Atlantic Ocean.

A black woman in the South, during the years of segregation, taught this writer a powerful lesson in the true meaning of Church.

During my first week as librarian in the Christian Science Reading Room in Melbourne, Australia, everything electrical went wrong. I had to replace the cassette/CD player, the answering machine, and an exhaust fan.

On October 3, 2010, I found myself in a jail in Los Angeles, California, asking myself how I got there. Everything was so confusing.

The healings of Jesus have uplifted hope for over 2,000 years. But it wasn’t until Mary Baker Eddy discovered the basis on which Jesus healed as “… the operation of divine Principle, before which sin and disease lose their reality in human consciousness and disappear …” (Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p.

I have been a Journal subscriber for years but have been remiss in telling you of the gratitude I feel for the work you all do to produce and share such a treasure to bless the world. However, an article in the February Journal by Rosalie Dunbar, “  ‘To lighten mankind’ ,” has prompted me to write this note.