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

When church came to where I lived

I wasn't very happy. I lived in a suburb that had been hastily constructed in the 1960s in France.

Some aspects of Christian Science treatment

Why is healing through prayer so important to Christian Scientists? For the same reason it was important to Christ Jesus. Healing illustrates tangibly the divine authority of the Science through which the healing is accomplished.

Spiritual vision revealing God's supremacy in our lives

The book of Genesis tells us that Jacob once had a vision. While he slept, "he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.

A ray of light

The tiny ray of light, shining through my bedroom window, made it appear as though a small piece of wallpaper had been torn away from the wall. I reached up toward the spot to see if the wallpaper really was torn and was relieved to see that it was only a thin shaft of sunlight on the dark blue wallpaper.

Following Christ Jesus

I'd never read the Bible. It just didn't seem important.

In the United States, where the Journal is published, more than a million people are living in prison or jail. The proportion of Americans serving sentences is the highest-known rate in the world, significantly higher, for instance, than European nations, South Africa, and the Soviet Union.

ENCIRCLING the GLOBE

Responses to the broadcasts of religious programming Trobigau, Germany .

MORE SIGNS of the TIMES

Reminiscences of a World War II prisoner of war: As prisoners, we came to find that we were amazed by the liberating power of an increasing realization that our captors were truly men who did not know what they were doing. We developed a kind of pity for our dangerously erratic guards because they and their masters seemed to us to be the prisoners in some deep, ancient oubliette of the human spirit, and we the free in hearts and minds.

"On the higher land"

A young couple entered an African estate agency "We want to rent a house," the young woman said. "We have plenty to let on the plateau," the estate agent told her.

Prayer when a marriage is challenged

A warm letter arrived at our home one day. In it, the writer stated: "I admire so much the tender and affectionate relationship that you two have with each other.