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Exploring in depth what Christian Science is and how it heals.

Lord of the answers

The waves were huge. I was with my family off the island of Kauai, in Hawaii, taking a 17-mile ocean kayak trip.

A timeless rule

I used to feel concerned that some By-Laws Mary Baker Eddy included in the Manual of The Mother Church seemed outdated or unnecessary for our time. One in particular is on page 48 : “A member of The Mother Church shall not haunt Mrs.

Love is all there is

Whatever disputes have taken place regarding the existence of God, few human hearts are not touched by the appeals of suffering humanity. “ Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer.

Nature: Friend or foe?

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.

‘Mary Baker Eddy Mentioned Them’: Theodore Parker

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.

Golden Rule prayer

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

‘The flame shall not hurt thee’

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

Molding thought for progress

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

Building a spiritual résumé

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.

The charity of Love

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