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If you live in the Philippines and have lost your house or worse to a typhoon, or if a family member has just passed on because of illness or even supposedly natural causes, “Nature: Friend or foe?”may be an easy question to answer. But Christian Science shows that we can progress beyond a sense of nature as being our physical foe to think of it as being spiritual, good, even sheltering and supportive.

On a rainy evening in 1841, the Unitarian minister Theodore Parker rode across Boston to be there when a colleague became the new pastor of a church. Groups of ministers always participated in these events, or “installation” ceremonies, where one of their own became “installed” or welcomed as the church’s full-time pastor.

This article offers fresh insights on the “Daily Prayer” by Mary Baker Eddy.

What do you do when it looks as though everything you owned just went up in smoke?

Changing our lives for the better begins with changing the model we hold in thought.

As I watched news clips of this year’s commencement speakers giving advice to the new graduates, I couldn’t help but remember with gratitude my own post-graduation “pounding the pavement” experience—and the incredible spiritual journey it started. While my thoughts had always tended toward spiritual searching, I was not raised in Christian Science, nor had I even heard of it at that point in my life.

A service trip to Central America raises the question, “How can we best help our neighbor?”

Every year since 1987 my city, Austin, Texas, has hosted an event called South by Southwest (SXSW). It’s a ten-day film festival, technology conference, and music festival, and is considered a breeding ground for innovation and new talent.

A man purchases two copies of the Spanish translation of Mary Baker Eddy’s book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures to take to his brothers during a visit to his home country. A woman, originally from Mexico and now going through a difficult divorce, finds help from a Spanish translation of Science and Health , a copy of El Heraldo, and a Spanish translation of the pamphlet “ God’s Law of Adjustment.

The answer to a question in the March 2014 Journal about the actuality of the Daniel in the lions’ den story reminded me of a story my mother often shared with me. One day when she was three years old, her family drove to a gas station, where the owner kept a large, vicious, snarling dog chained up on the property.