Articles

WHEN A CLOSE family member had found it hard to fall pregnant, she felt helpless, and there were monthly disappointments and bitter tears. For my own peace, I began to pray to get a better understanding of God as Life and Love (two names for God found in the Bible).

RAISED IN A BIBLE-BASED, mainstream Protestant church before I became a Christian Scientist, I cherish the common bond between Christians: love for God's Word. In Christian Science, the very first tenet emphatically states the central importance of the Bible: "As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired Word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal Life" ( Science and Health, p.

WE SYNCHRONIZE OUR WATCHES, synchronize our iPods to our computers, and synchronize our DVRs to record TV shows. Yet, beyond the use of these gadgets, is a deeper spiritual concept of synchronicity that is of even greater value to humanity.

WHEN GOD TOLD JONAH TO GO to the wicked citizens of Nineveh and preach the words that God would give him so they would reform (see Jonah 1:1, 2), he resisted—much as many might do today if told to go preach reform to drug warlords. In tune with the morality of his times, Jonah felt that anyone who did not worship God as the Hebrews did should be destroyed.

MOST PEOPLE YEARN TO HAVE DIRECTION IN THEIR LIVES, the feeling that they are working toward a worthwhile goal—that they have a mission. They may spend years in the quest for answers to questions like: "What should I be doing with my life?" and "Where am I going?" Some seek answers through employment, many through self-help books, and others through counseling.

OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS I've enjoyed doing an in-depth study of the Bible. One of the things that led me to this study is that I was wondering what made some of the individual people of the Bible so great.

WHAT AN EXPANDING ADVENTURE it can be to catch glimpses of the radiant womanhood of God that reveals "the highest ideal of Love"! Isn't it wonderful that not one of us—either man or woman—is defined by the Eve-type mentality put forth in Genesis 2 in the Bible? Eve is not just a woman—she represents a state of thought that is vulnerable to the suggestions of "the serpent"—of being incomplete, separate from God, the one Mind. Lacking divine wisdom, this mental state naively believes what it sees with the material senses and is bolstered by the serpent's promise—being made wise by believing that both evil and good comprise all that is real.

ONE MIGHT INDEED WONDER. It does seem that the world at large is not yet ready for the spiritualization of thought and Christianization of life-practice that this Science demands.

HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT OF YOURSELF IN THAT LIGHT? Maybe a child of the Sunday School. But think of what it means to be "a child of the Church.

One of the more detailed historical statements by Mary Baker Eddy appears in her Message to The Mother Church for 1901, where she speaks of her parents' religious devotion as well as the examples of a number of clergymen who influenced her from childhood, up to her discovery of Christian Science. These men were Congregationalists, Baptists, Methodists.