Articles

1. During a recent stay at a European hostel, Lucie Lehmann-Barclay found that chats with new friends from non-Christian, non-Western backgrounds inspired her to delve into the Bible to find answers to some of their questions.

Dear Fellow Members, In today's world most of us don't worry too much about snakes. But if we do, it's the kind of snake that might bite us rather than the kind that might beguile us.

LAST SUMMER AFTER AN EVENING with friends, I couldn't help but reflect on the time when the joy and comfort of companionship seemed hopelessly missing from my life. I realized I needed to stop searching for what I thought a perfect and complete life would be and instead embrace the good already present in my life.

An African professor at Amherst College shares how the healing through Christian Science of an "incurable" disease led him to help grow a branch church in his native Nigeria. WHEN ROWLAND ABIODUN LOOKS back on his healing of diagnosed leukemia, he can't help but recall the casual strolls he took past a Christian Science church in Canada during the late 1960s.

November 2008 marks the centennial year of the establishment of Christian Science nursing as part of the Church's healing activities. The Manual of The Mother Church by Mary Baker Eddy states: "Christian Science Nurse.

CONSIDER A SITUATION IN WHICH AN AVALANCHE buried the mouth of a cave you were in. Well, you might find a match useful.

CHURCH CAN MEAN MANY THINGS TO MANY PEOPLE. Some may think of it as simply a place to go once or more a week to participate in worship services with others who are likeminded.

A FEW WEEKS AFTER THE SEPTEMBER 11 attacks in the United States, I was talking to my friend Jamal Gabobe in a cafe in Seattle. We were trying to understand the implications of these attacks for ordinary people in the United States.

I Had Never Felt Anything Like It before—an all-embracing love, so sweetly close, so deeply compassionate and uncondemning that nothing else was real. This tender Presence hit me a few days into a course in Primary class instruction in Christian Science as I was praying alone in my room.

HOW DO WE KNOW GOD EXISTS? The question has been very much in public thought lately, with several books on the bestseller list arguing against the existence of God. So how is it that in the face of so much turmoil and suffering in the world, Christian Science can insist not only that God exists supreme, all-powerful, always present, but that there is a way for the yearning heart to prove it? There is an old joke about a sidewalk preacher giving a sermon in a downtown park.