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Mary Baker Eddy mentions the ancient Greek mathematician Euclid three times in her published works. And Abraham Lincoln, as a horseback lawyer in rural Illinois, carried a copy of Euclid’s book The Elements in his saddlebag.

When I was a child and a teenager, I struggled a lot to figure out who I was and where I fit in. I looked at the other kids at school and tried to copy them, the clothes they wore and the music they listened to, but that didn’t help me find myself.

Not long ago, a friend of mine said to me, “I’m really struggling with the need to give up what’s good in life in order to be more spiritual. I’ve built a successful business.

Mary Baker Eddy said about our Pastor, “Science & Health and the blessed Bible are the only two books that lead you surest in the right way” (L04913, Mary Baker Eddy to Mrs. S.

I remember the sunny afternoons during my childhood when my mom would call me to help her take care of numerous ornamental plants she cultivated in our backyard. The work consisted of digging the soil, removing the weeds, and watering the plants, which in a short time would respond to this tender care with new leaves and sprouts popping out.

Open a box. Pick up a stone.

While praying to heal back injury, this writer found fresh inspiration in Jesus’ story of the Prodigal Son.

Big Brother, in the George Orwell novel 1984 , is the dictator of a totalitarian state whose ruling party claims to have everyone’s interests at heart, but instead attempts to control people’s thoughts and actions. Though party propaganda claims Big Brother exists, it's not clear in the novel if he's real or simply a fabrication of the party in order to personify it.

When we persist in our prayers to forgive and love more, God blesses us with the patience, perseverance, and strength to do so.

I’ve had many wonderful healings in Christian Science—all over the world, in fact. A unique one happened while I was traveling in France.