Articles

Purity is an essential element in the practice of Christianity. To be pure-minded, to live a life of goodness and spiritual clarity, is inseparable from spiritual growth and attainment.

Christian Healing , illustrated in the ministry of Christ Jesus and practiced in Christian Science, might be described as participation in perfection—spiritual perfection. When people came to Jesus for healing, it was not unusual for him to require something of them.

Where Adversity appears so very real, God's love is actually the only ruling presence. Why? Because God fills all space, and He is the only God— eternal, omnipotent, divine Love.

In 1906, my husband was asked to undertake some work in Russia. We both felt it was a call to take Christian Science to that country.

Lillie Wallich could not have introduced Christian Science to Russia at a more portentous time than in 1907. Straight from the gentility of Edwardian England, the Christian Science practitioner landed in the roil of social and political upheaval that would ultimately topple the Romanov dynasty and launch the communist era.

The Increasing Interest today in things spiritual is becoming evident in perhaps unexpected places. Doctors are investigating and affirming the effect of prayer on bodily health; theologians in greater numbers are beginning to accept that prayer can actually bring physical healing; and physicists and other natural scientists are increasingly positing the existence of a directing spiritual force in the universe.

Sometimes  it seems that civility and respect are helpless victims of materialism and crime. Especially disturbing are reports of vandalism in schools, the desecration of houses of worship, the defamation of values and institutions.

Life On This Planet requires water. Weather, an atmospheric phenomenon, is what lifts it from oceans and distributes it over the earth's surface.

The Journal asked frequent contributor Richard Bergenheim to comment on this subject of great significance to Christians . Over the years it has become common to preach that God showed the depth of His love for us by allowing His Son, Jesus Christ, to be crucified for our sins.

How was Mary Baker Eddy able to accomplish so much in a time when women had few rights and were often treated as second-class citizens? Teachers, journalists, corporate professionals, historians, and theologians are just some of the individuals who have been seeking to know more about this remarkable woman and her life-transforming book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. The media's interest in Mrs.