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The Book of Acts records that after the stoning of Stephen, who was one of the early Christians, a great persecution arose against the young Christian church in Jerusalem, and most believers scattered throughout the region, fleeing for their lives (see Acts 8:1 ). Regardless of this crisis, Acts continues with accounts of these followers of Christ Jesus sharing their new faith, making new disciples, and sowing the seeds of new churches wherever they went.

John Bunyan’s book The Pilgrim’s Progress is valued as one of the most significant works of theological fiction in English literature. It describes the long, toilsome search of our hero, “Christian,” for the “Celestial City,” the kingdom of God.

One morning a friend contacted me and said that his son, a friend of my son’s, had run away after they’d had a fight. He wondered if my son or I might know where he was.

I remember the first time I washed feet. In my early teens, I’d been asked to help take care of my grandma whom I was living with at the time.

From childhood we learn to be obedient to our parents, our coaches, our teachers, and our employers. “Follow the rules!” we might hear them say.

The  Journal  is pleased to offer readers the third in an occasional column from the Office of Christian Science Practitioner Activities at The Mother Church in Boston. “Pathways to the practice” is autobiographical.

My husband and I were nearing our retirement years, and I knew we needed a change so that we could retire. We both worked heavy-labor, low-paying self-employed jobs that offered no benefits, and we also had no savings.

The discord most impressing an individual will disappear from his or her thought as he or she perceives anyone as being perfect, as God is. 

When we challenge pain’s validity, seeing it as a mirage, we truly make progress and find relief. 

The many ways in which Christian Science practitioners and teachers found their way into the public practice of Christian Science.