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Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, uses an interesting term— alterative —to describe divine Truth, with its healing effect on human minds and bodies. In the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, she writes, “Truth is an alterative in the entire system, and can make it ‘every whit whole’ ” ( p.

Allison Stewart, Mary Baker Eddy’s publisher, objected to her using this word in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (see We Knew Mary Baker Eddy, Expanded Edition, Vol. 2, pp.

A woman once remarked to the famous naturalist John Burroughs that she didn’t have any birds in her garden. Not a one.

My teenage son had been threatened by a fellow classmate and urged to engage in a fistfight after school. He hardly knew the other student, but agreed to meet him—to face him and tell him there wouldn’t be any fight.

A Christian Science Sunday School teacher once pointed out to our class of young teens that Jesus never instructed his followers, “Worship me. ” Rather, he counseled them, “Follow me” and “Heal the sick” ( Matthew 4:19; 10:8 ).

To learn what brings about healings and to understand divine Science, it’s important to go to the books—the Bible, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, and Mary Baker Eddy’s other writings. We shouldn’t look to other people’s testimonies for guides or formulas for how we should pray.  

Grasping after shadows as if they were substance, we never find the actual stuff of the universe: spiritual ideas. To the extent we seek after these divine ideas for their own sake, however, their appropriate human expression will surely appear. 

The current Manager of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship shares how a deeper focus on prayerful lecture preparation makes the events successful. 

Ahanonu, Chiemezi, CSB Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria Arneth, Heike, CSB Munich, Germany Aubin, Edwina, CSB Cleveland, Queensland, Australia Bikai, James Pascal, CSB Yaoundé, Cameroon Ehrenhardt, Nicole, CS Winnweiler, Germany Farkas, Caryl Emra, CSB Santa Fe, New Mexico, US Fischer, Alexandre, CS Pau, France Frizotti, Evelin, CSB Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Glokpor, Rodger, CSB Lomé, Togo Hegarty, Janet, CSB Saint Louis, Missouri, US Hertgen, Monique, CSB Duingt, France Hughes, Alison, CS Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK Kisonga, André, CSB Kinshasa, Democratic Republic  of Congo Klein, Juliane, CSB Berlin, Germany Kneeland, Ann, CS San Rafael, California, US Lewis, Bobby, CS Buena Vista, Colorado, US O’Hagan, Nikki, CS Dublin, Ireland Packer, Deborah, CS Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia Passaglia, Mónica, CSB Caseros, Buenos Aires, Argentina Shepherd, James, CS Eugene, Oregon, US Tetreau, Giulia Nesi, CSB Fairfield, Connecticut, US Troseth, Lisa, CSB Rogers, Arkansas, US Tshiabuila, Mayal, CSB Kinshasa, Democratic Republic  of Congo Virgil, Nicole, CS Elmhurst, Illinois, US Wahlberg, Melanie, CS Lake Forest, California, US.

 A temporary estrangement is healed. A family reconciles.