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There was a time in my life when everything fell apart. I was living in another country, feeling lonely and isolated, full of self-doubt, confused about my purpose, and chronically ill.

We acknowledge and adore one supreme and infinite God. We acknowledge His Son, one Christ; the Holy Ghost or divine Comforter; and man in God’s image and likeness.

W earing a tie isn’t normally necessary for a Christian Science lecturer, but for this event at the University of Durham in the UK,   I was going to need a bow tie and a new dinner jacket (i. e.

When her friends liken Christian Science with the practice of visualizing the results we hope for, a woman clarifies.

This writer gets a heads-up: change for its own sake—or true spiritual “change”?

Discerning what's real, and what's just a story.

One morning last winter , I discovered how stunning a New England beach can be in January. As I gazed down from the snowy edge of a sand dune, the water seemed like a huge sheet of cobalt glass stretching out before me, mirroring an equally flawless, porcelain-blue sky above.

The Sea Turtles Recently during a stay at a beach resort I saw a sign saying, “It is turtle season again, so please close the blinds at sundown. ” Of course, I complied.

Thought will finally be understood and seen in all form, substance, and color, but without material accompaniments.   — Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures , p.

I could sense the grief a friend felt as she recalled the days of church services filled with members, lots of children in the Sunday School, and a packed church parking lot. But afterward, I felt a need to answer what has been a question for me as well—What happened? Why aren’t churches as full now as they used to be?  There are plenty of reasonable explanations for the decline in the numbers attending church.