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Exploring Science and Health brings profound healing.

Whether true or apocryphal , the story goes that a famous Russian general named Grigory Potemkin erected fake settlements along Empress Catherine the Great’s route to the Crimea for the purpose of deceiving and impressing her when she visited the region in 1787. Down through the years, the phrase “Potemkin village” has come to mean an appearance designed to deceive—a façade behind which there is no reality.

Mary Baker Eddy writes in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, “Mortal mind is the harp of many strings, discoursing either discord or harmony according as the hand, which sweeps over it, is human or divine” ( p. 213 ).

The early pioneers in the Christian Science movement built up a tremendous momentum for church growth through their healing work. This momentum was fueled by a supreme love of, and trust in, God, divine Spirit, the true motive-power in healing, and it underpinned the growth of the branches of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, that these men and women founded.

One of my favorite quotes from the New Testament of the Holy Bible is “Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place” ( II Corinthians 2:14 ). It is filled with the promise of victory—the assurance that triumph is inevitable for every one of us, right here, right now, always.

Over the years , The Christian Science Monitor has been recognized as one of the world’s best newspapers. But reporting the news is only the beginning of the Monitor ’s job.

I often hear people scoff at the idea of moral values, thinking they’re pointless and restrictive. The world today mostly equates morality with sexual propriety.

Our concept of family deepens when we see God as our forever Parent and guide.

Last October , several members from our local branch Church of Christ, Scientist, attended the Christian Science nursing meeting hosted by another branch church in our area. A robust conversation took place about how we care for each other in our churches, and how each one of us was expressing Christian Science nursing qualities—such as spiritual poise, listening, and kindness—in practical ways.

Recently, a gentleman in great distress came into our Christian Science Reading Room. He needed prayer, food, and money for the bus.