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

Listeners in many parts of the world, such as the United States, aren't as familiar with short wave radio and its frequencies as are people who live in places where shortwave listening is much more common. Usually, AM and FM radio stations are located in one's local community, but listeners to short wave frequencies are often listening to programs from transmitters located hundreds and even thousands of miles away from where they live.

It was so evident at the meetings—the loving support that employees at The Mother Church receive from their spouses in the work they do! When an invitation was extended to spouses of employees to attend one of two Saturday morning meetings focused on Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, they accepted, prepared, and came (some of them from a considerable distance).

A church based on revelation

When Jesus' followers started to preach the gospel, they congregated in homes or open spaces because they didn't have temples. Their example shows that wherever we are, it is possible to take the true concept of Church that Christ Jesus left us: a church based on revelation.

Character education and church

Who's responsible for teaching people to be compassionate, honest, and morally courageous members of society? This has always been the work of parents. And, while business and educational institutions are newly considering their roles in character training, churches and synagogues have been at the heart of character education for a long time.

The quality of thought that heals

What was it in particular about the beggar at the temple gate in Jerusalem that opened his thought to healing? The Bible tells us that he looked upon the disciples Peter and John, "expecting to receive something of them. " Acts 3:5.

Our Father's perfect parenting—and our resulting innocence

Christ Jesus revealed a wondrous spiritual truth, so strange to mortal ears that some saw it as blasphemy. A truth so redefining, so far-reaching, that it revolutionized mankind's idea of both God and man.

Fulfillment

In a word, that really is what having an article published in the Christian Science periodicals is all about—fulfillment. But it's not just a sense of personal reward.

The time for thinkers has come

From: Hope and Suffering: Sermons and Speeches by the Right Reverend Desmond Tutu. Genesis 1:1 —"In the beginning God.

What nursing can mean

Looking up the verb "to nurse" in the Duden etymological dictionary of the German language, I found that its original meaning is "to stand up for, commit oneself to something. " From this definition ring undertones of steadfastness, conviction, loyalty, reliability, and honesty—qualities that can make Christian Science nursing particularly valuable.

Foot-washing Christianity

As followers of Christ Jesus, we may not literally wash the feet of our fellow disciples, but we do need to understand and demonstrate the love Jesus clearly displayed the evening before his trial and crucifixion. After the last supper Jesus shared with his disciples before his betrayal, he took off his garment, put a towel around himself, poured water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, wiping them with the towel.