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Have you ever heard of a “Godwink”? My daughter recently used that phrase to describe an experience where she felt God’s tender care for her. It’s a little reminder, as if God is saying, “I love you, My child.

In 2015, I received a letter from The Mother Church inviting me to Boston that June for training sessions for Communications Coordinators around the world. The first thing I did was renew my passport.

It was a Sunday morning. I arrived at church early to take my post as usher, ready to greet newcomers as well as our regular attendees.

My initial encounter with Christian Science was in prison, where I went to a Christian Science church service just to get out of my cell. At the time I was serving a life sentence for a crime I had not committed, although I had engaged in other criminal activity from an early age.

Six years ago, a very special event in my life made me think more deeply about the topic of equal rights for women and men. This event was the birth of our first daughter.

A deep dive into the Bible shows us that many individuals experienced God’s saving and protecting power in the face of extreme adversity. Starting with Genesis, we read of the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and other key figures such as Sarah and Joseph, who saw God’s laws of harmony overcome such afflictions as floods, loneliness, hunger, disease, infertility, greed, jealousy, rivalry, and abandonment.

As a teenager , I was working above a new display of soda pop at my job in a grocery store when some bottles exploded, sending shards of glass into my face and eyes. Soon after, I sat alone in a hospital emergency room waiting for my mother to arrive to authorize medical treatment because I was a minor.

At The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, the Office of the Publisher’s Agent for Mary Baker Eddy’s Writings regularly receives inquiries and suggestions related to translations of this author’s books. Also received are inquiries about various non-English translations of the Bible.

Mary Baker Eddy describes how she felt after being healed of life-threatening injuries from a fall on the ice: “Being was beautiful, its substance, cause, and currents were God and His idea. I had touched the hem of Christian Science” ( Retrospection and Introspection, p.

In an article titled “Follow the Science?” New York Times columnist David Leonhardt observes, “Many people have come to believe that expert opinion is a unitary, omniscient force. That’s the assumption behind the phrases ‘follow the science’ and ‘what the science says.