In this Issue
December 2025
For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds.
—II Corinthians 10:4
WELCOME
Welcome - December 2025
Amy Richmond
Christmas is a wonderful time to revel in the priceless gift that God gave to us in Jesus. And this issue highlights some of the lessons in the Christmas story. But these insights don’t have to be seasonal.
ARTICLES
John the Baptist, Christ Jesus, and Christmas
Gretchen Newby
Knowing God’s allness makes us free
Albis Rodriguez
Christ Jesus—“the man of joys”
Robert Schult
Claiming dominion
Daniel Lees
The physical universe is really a false concept in human consciousness. Grasping this, and seeing the universe as God’s entirely spiritual creation, gives us dominion.
Christian Science nursing— a spiritual calling
Ellen Richardson
Willingness to move out of her comfort zone geographically and praying to know her purpose led this author to discover the spiritual and practical rewards of Christian Science nursing.
Just superimposed
Janet Clements
In spiritual healing what we see as a problem is really a mortal thought that appears to be made manifest. It’s as if the mortal thought is the projector that overlays, or superimposes, an image of discord. The answer, then, is to remove the mortal thought, and then it cannot show up in our experience.
Exploring the meaning of spiritual sense
Karen Neff
INTERVIEWS
The key to freedom
Nicole Virgil interviewed by the Journal’s David Brown
Freedom is tied to obedience and practice in a way that is not necessarily always obvious to people.
THE BIBLE: OUR SUFFICIENT GUIDE
Christmas and handling the Herod-thought
Christine Jenks Herlinger Driessen
How we can pray to see the powerlessness of the “Herod-thought”—the mental resistance to God’s law of peace and harmony.
POEMS
Ever with us
Kit Cornell Kurtz
“The collective rays of godly light / with which Jesus shone / in his full magnitude / illuminating the world / forever . . .” Read the rest of this Christmas story-inspired poem by Kit Cornell Kurtz.
Christmas again
Mari G. de Milone
TESTIMONIES OF HEALING
Shingles symptoms overcome
Lynda Lanker
Joyful healing after fall from bike
Kathie Walter
After falling from her bicycle, the author turns to God for help, praying with spiritual truths found in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.
Grateful for recent healings
Shannon Woolley
After struggling with periodic colds and flu for many years, this author found freedom from both through surrendering to divine Love and loving family members more.
Truth heals bite and swelling
Sondra Elkins
With the support of a Christian Science practitioner, learning more about Christ, Truth, healed this woman of a tick bite. She was comforted to know that God is all there really is.
Peace found and shoulder healed
Suzanne Salvatore
Injured back healed
Patricia Johnston
OF GOOD REPORT
Praying helped me find a home
Maire Noble
Home is a spiritual idea from God, so it is always part of our experience. Praying with this thought, the author was able to sell her home, which met the buyers’ needs, and move into a new home that met her needs.
Believe the true report
Madeline Demaree
What God reports is always accurate, and pure and true messages constantly flow to us, since we are His children.
From insults to handshakes
William Dunnell
When a rowdy group of teenage boys trespass repeatedly on his property, this author knows he needs to get to work to see them as God’s children.
EDITORIAL
“Never born and never dying”
Mark Swinney
Since Spirit, God, is our only Father or creator, we are created spiritually. We were never born into matter. We never started existing but exist forever in God, divine Mind, as His birthless ideas.
