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Among the many helpful ways of describing healing in Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy explains in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, “It is our ignorance of God, the divine Principle, which produces apparent discord, and the right understanding of Him restores harmony” ( p. 390 ).

The healing and transforming inspiration that can be gained from reading the Bible is endless. Christian Science brings to the study of the Bible an approach based on divine revelation, reason, and demonstration that makes practical every part of the Bible for our modern experience.

The opening pages of the Bible, the 31 verses in the first chapter of Genesis, are special to people around the world. But while many view them as the record of a creation that took place in the past, Christian Science reveals that it is a timeless description of creation as it always truly is, spiritual and perfect.

Years before the founder of this magazine was the internationally known author Mary Baker Eddy, she was known to her friends and acquaintances as Mary Glover. One day, she received the following telegram: “Mrs.

Dear Reader, Some years ago, an ad posted all over London promoted a book about a celebrity as “the ultimate biography. ” I was reading a biography of Mary Baker Eddy at the time, and was struck with how she leaned on God and defied all the odds to restore what she referred to as “primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing” ( Church Manual, p.

“Mrs. Dunton is prejudiced” was written on the tiny scrap of paper scrunched in the bottom of the mailbox I kept on my desk as a third-grade teacher.

The long-running and immensely popular British television series Call the Midwife is based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth, a young Englishwoman who left her comfortable home to work in London’s East End as a midwife. Each episode starts out as the original book did with the question, “Why did I ever start this? I must have been mad! There were dozens of other things I could have been.

Recently, when diving deeper into the Bible story of Christ Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead (see John 11 ), I found myself valuing important details that I had overlooked before, one being that Jesus’ friendship toward Lazarus was different than we might expect of friendships today. Jesus’ love for Lazarus included seeing his spiritual selfhood as permanent, intact, and as perfect as God, the creator of that selfhood.

Thoughts we hold shape our lives. Spiritual ideas, when grappled with and understood, are even more transformative, as the biblical patriarch Jacob demonstrated when he wrestled with an angel, or message from God.

The inspired, or spiritual, message of the Bible—expressing the Word of God, good—is full of wisdom that inspires, instructs, and changes one’s life for the better. For instance, recently I came across a passage in the Old Testament that was very familiar to me—familiar, yes, but nonetheless loaded with fresh insight.