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The common worldview holds that there are several causes or influences driving our experience—that at any time some impelling force can manifest itself to our detriment. We can wake up one morning and be led to think a hereditary disease has decided to make an appearance.

The jury’s verdict is, Not guilty. “Then the prisoner rose up regenerated, strong, free.

Jesus promised his followers, “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: and I give unto them eternal life” ( John 10:27, 28 ). This “eternal life” is the salvation all Christians hope will be the culmination of a life well lived, but such a hope raises the question: Are we good enough for eternal life?  In the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke we read the story of the man who asked Jesus, “Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?” ( Matthew 19:16 ).

Although the belief that we are aging mortals is aggressive and nearly universal, we do not have to embrace it, nor be victimized by it. God’s creation, man, is immortal, and therefore, ageless.

Being a member of The Mother Church makes me a party to a global healing force that reshapes traditional thought currents. What most hail as scientific certainty, we reject.

I wasn’t a Christian Scientist at the time, having left the Church 30 years earlier.   But I’d been aware of the website spirituality.

The fact that the founder of our Church, Mary Baker Eddy, came from a Puritan background means everything to me. She came from humble roots, with a firm grounding in the Bible.

My story about the blessing of Mother Church membership involves an unlikely place—a hospital emergency room. Playing second base in a Men’s Senior Baseball League game, I received a deep gash one day from a spike on a double play.

Christ Jesus the Ensample. He who dated the Christian era is the Ensample in Christian Science.

In preparing to understand and engage in interfaith activity, it’s helpful to look at the Preamble of the United Religions Initiative (URI) charter. Its first four sentences read: “We, people of diverse religions, spiritual expressions, and indigenous traditions throughout the world, hereby establish the United Religions Initiative to promote enduring, daily interfaith cooperation, to end religiously motivated violence, and to create cultures of peace, justice, and healing for the Earth and all living beings.