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Mary Baker Eddy once gave a simple answer to the question of how to succeed in the practice of healing through prayer. “By being like Jesus,” she wrote, “by asking yourself am I honest? Am I just? Am I merciful? Am I pure? And being able to respond with your demonstrations to let what you can do for the sick answer this.

Each summer I travel to my home country of America where I have a wonderful opportunity to visit different Christian Science branch churches. Sometimes it appears that there are not many youth members in these branch churches.

Q) How can I be free of the necessity of taking pills?   —Asked at a recent Christian Science workshop in the Philippines A)  I love the heartfelt expectation expressed in your question—to “be free”! True freedom comes from an abiding trust in God to meet our every need, including health. This trust naturally follows as we learn that man’s being is spiritual, not material.

Mary Baker Eddy’s books .

According to news reports, there has been a marked surge of interest in evangelical religious practices in recent years. In light of this trend, one might ask what the Church of Christ, Scientist, has to offer in these times.

Almost everything we endeavor in life, if it’s to be accomplished successfully, depends on fundamentals. The artist, whether a painter or a potter, has to have mastered the basics of her medium well before the first masterpiece is created.

Have you ever wondered what goes into producing a translation of Mary Baker Eddy’s writings? This is the first in a three-part series in which we hope to shed light on the translation process and take up some of the questions we hear most frequently. We invite you to explore this important topic with us.

Parting the Red Sea The Red Sea is defined in Science and Health as “the dark ebbing and flowing tides of human fear” ( p. 566 ).

We’ve all probably heard of the concept of original sin, which is from the story of Adam and Eve in the Bible. In the book of Genesis, the world is described as a perfect paradise, up until the first sin was committed, when Adam and Eve disobeyed the Lord and ate the forbidden apple.

We all lived together in an eco-village in the Scottish Highlands. Tucked high up on a south-facing hillside, overlooking a long-stretching loch that mirrored the sky, we were establishing an alternative community, working towards a self-sufficient, zero-waste life.