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For more than a century, the Bible Lessons published in the Christian Science Quarterly have been at the core of Sunday sermons at Christian Science services, of healing in these services, and of individual study and practice of Christian Science. However, when Mary Baker Eddy first organized her Church, she had not yet established these Lessons.

Mary Baker Eddy called it a “joyful meeting” when Christ Jesus and his disciples ate breakfast together “on the shore of the Galilean Sea” ( Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 34 ).

In popular usage, the phrase to “fight fire with fire” means to retaliate—to match aggression with aggression—in other words, “an eye for an eye. ” But the phrase was coined to describe a technique for literally fighting brush fires.

How do we usher in a receptive thought? The author notes that “true hospitality begins in our own thought and includes a willingness to welcome in the presence of divine Love.”

“What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour” ( Psalms 8:4, 5 ). Imagine! We are a “little lower than the angels,” or, as Dummelow’s Bible Commentary states: “Man, the only creature made in God’s image, stands nearest to Him in the ranks of the universe” (p.

It’s likely that a regular reader of the Journal also knows that Mary Baker Eddy established two other magazines, the Christian Science Sentinel and The Herald of Christian Science, as a family of periodicals designed to meet specific spiritual needs. Christian Science Sentinel The Sentinel watches and defends the activity of the Christ by identifying trends in world thought and highlighting activities that foster Christlike qualities such as dignity, freedom, selflessness, humility, and brotherly love.

One thing I just love about The Christian Science Journal is that it is a place to meet with fellow readers and, with care and sensitivity, think through the issues that are the “biggies,” so to speak. This article certainly aims to provide one of those opportunities.

Humanity has always tried different ways to find answers to the many questions about the purpose and origin of our existence. Some cultures have turned to ritual offerings and dances to communicate with what they considered a superior intelligence.

Can science and technology replace God? Essayists in this book explore and reflect on C. S. Lewis's warnings about the danger of giving too much power to a material view of life.

First Reader of The Mother Church, Sandy Sandberg,  answers a question from a JSH-Online reader about online Wednesday testimony meetings.