Articles

This article explores Mary and Martha, and their relevance to Christian Science nursing. Each had specific spiritual qualities that are essential, as well as a willingness to honor Christ.

The reality of the kingdom of heaven that Jesus told us about is not far off; it’s as close as our own hearts as they yearn for God.

Protests on a college campus remain surprisingly peaceful after a Christian Scientist, and the Christian Science organization on campus, pray to see God’s government reflected. 

Mental housecleaning requires diligence, as well as repeatedly and humbly turning to God until we are confident of the dominion of Love in any situation. In this way, we’ll walk over the waves of turmoil and gain peace. 

Recently when I was serving in my local Christian Science Reading Room, I was unenthusiastically working on a task that needed to be completed that day. And there was an additional task I knew I should do, but that I could put off.

When a houseguest arranges for a tree to be pruned without this author’s permission, the results are ugly. The author prays to see the spiritual reality that no damage could be done to the friendship, or to the tree. 

Obedience to the Ten Commandments shows us the falsity of the sensual claim of pain and pleasure in matter and enables us to heal pain and find true pleasure.

Despite a bunch of returned article submissions, this author realized something that gave her hope and a sense of serving the Cause of Christian Science. The act of writing kept her prayerfully alert to the world’s needs, and in effect helped meet those needs by uplifting and healing her thought first. 

One day when I was in high school, I was protected from being caught up in a school riot. My mother was a Christian Scientist, and she prayed for my sisters and me every day.

Every bit of Science  and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy has infinite depths of inspiration and practical application, but it is always a delight to me when something that I have understood and loved at one level takes on fresh meaning, and powerful inspiration is breathed into my healing work. Countless spiritual lessons can be learned from how we interpret the world around us.