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Exploring in depth what Christian Science is and how it heals.

"Privilege of members"

In response to requests from college students wanting to offer talks on Christian Science on their campuses, Mary Baker Eddy in 1904 wrote a By-Law called "Privilege of Members," under the section "The Mother Church and Branch Churches. " It enables students, instructors, and members of the faculty at colleges and universities to form and conduct Christian Science organizations (CSOs).

New Readers of The Mother Church, First Reader Lyle Young and Second Reader Suzanne Cowin, are fluent in English, of course—but they're also fluent in Spanish. For the first time in its 125-year history, The Mother Church made Spanish speaking a prerequisite for the two people appointed to these special positions.

Defining Church

Church. The structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle.

Clerk rhymes with work, and William Johnson was one hard-working, tenderly caring Clerk of The Mother Church, who served as one of Mary Baker Eddy's most trusted colleagues for 20 years. His son, William Lyman Johnson, recalled that his parents had been pew holders in the Dorchester Street Methodist church in Boston, but his father was searching for "some curative power that would heal not only a distressing rupture, but one that would eliminate the dregs of diseases,"  From the reminiscences of William Lyman Johnson, The Mary Baker Eddy Collection, The Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity.

"Within the last five years," she said, as it was reported in the January 6, 1906, issue of the Christian Science Sentinel, "there have been organized fifteen churches and societies in the larger towns of the north of England, and in each case the work started through healing. " But the north of England had not warmly welcomed Lady Victoria Murray's first attempts to form a church a few years earlier.

"Each church or society," Mary Baker Eddy wrote in the April 1895 Journal, "formed for Sunday worship, shall elect two Readers.

Growing a Church for the ages—a blueprint for action

"The tree of life .

The Olympics—peace was always the point

" Back then, terrorism was a foreign concept," explains Gisela Manger of Munich, Germany. "It would not have occurred to us to pray in preparation for the Olympics.

I didn't expect a death threat

Jennifer Rosebrugh has been a member of Canada's foreign service since 1986, helping Canadian firms do business abroad. Although she is based in the Canadian capital, Ottawa, she currently manages Canada's trade and investment program for sub-Saharan Africa and frequently travels to that continent.

An approach to peace that's working

Belfast, Northern Ireland "You have to understand that African terrorism is different from Middle East terrorism, and the terrorism the United States is fighting is different again from the terrorism in Northern Ireland," Steven told me. He is an attendant at a Protestant-based coffee shop for spiritual searchers in Belfast, Northern Ireland.