Articles

This Series Of Articles will be unusual in a number of ways. First of all, its roots can be found in a statement from the Christian Science Board of Directors in the June 2006 Journal and in extensive discussions among members of the Board over the last several years.

Our Sunday School in Belfast may be modest in size, but it's a very happy one. We have always included the youngest of the children—babies from birth—in their own class in the Sunday School room.

I Am Christian Science Nurse , and I traveled to Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo with the TMC Youth team for the recent Summits. One of our group, a Christian Science practitioner, was really interested in visiting an orphanage.

1. This month, Christian Science practitioner John Rinnert of Montana, answers a reader's question about the "day of judgment" for our Q&A column.

AS A YOUNG CHILD, I spent many hours in my grandmother's garden. Grandma loved her flowers, and I loved them, too.

THE DUTCH CALLED HER "NEW AMSTERDAM," Washington Irving dubbed her "Gotham," Frank Sinatra sang, she's "a city, that doesn't sleep. " And on my first visit to New York City at age seven, I called her a dream.

The Journal receives a number of contributions that, because of space constraints, we can't publish in full. In these pages, however, we can offer excerpts that we found inspiring and insightful—some spiritual "nuggets" worth tucking into thought.

JESUS' DISCIPLES HAD FISHED all night. They caught nothing.

Mrs. Eddy pursued two careers: first as a poet, later as leader of a religious movement.

WHEN I WAS A KID, someone told me that sunlight shining through a magnifying glass could burn a hole in a piece of paper. So, I went out into the sun and held a magnifying glass a few inches above a piece of paper—and sure enough, the light shining through the magnifier became so concentrated that it burned a hole in the paper.