Branch Church News
All Manual -based activities honor God's allness and the spiritual qualities found in human consciousness. As part of the ongoing activity of church, the Reading Room is uniquely adapted to fulfill this purpose.
For Christian Scientists this term takes on greater meaning as societies and branch churches learn how the understanding and practice of Christianity can transform thought from a material to a spiritual basis. For example, the lecture committee of an English branch church based its study on the first tenet of Christian Science as well as another statement by Mrs.
It's not unusual for members to write, sometimes after a few months, sometimes after many years, telling how joining The Mother Church has changed their lives. The following excerpts are from letters, some translated, sent in recent months by members in Germany, Indonesia, and the United States.
A Sunday School superintendent glanced around the Sunday School during the instruction period recently. In one class of four-year-olds, children were taking turns standing up and signaling something with gestures to the rest of the class.
For one practitioner and grandmother, healing crime meant proving there is no "victim" and no "criminal. " She proved that spiritual acumen and compassion can turn untoward difficulties into remarkable opportunities.
In the second of two informal discussions—the first appeared in the February Journal— the Editor, Geoffrey Barratt, and Associate Editors, Naomi Price and Nathan Talbot, talk about writing and what it is they look for in articles. How do you each prepare to write? GB There are different approaches.
Invited to teach? What will you answer? The call to teach in Sunday School is a call to put our spiritual understanding to excellent use. That's all it is.
A need to reprint the bylaws prompted one branch church to review its rules and regulations. The result—a greater understanding of branch church democracy.
On January 12, the Monitor will include a special section on the problem of world hunger. In the following interview, a staff writer who worked on this project explains how a spiritual basis enables the individual both to understand this problem and contribute to its solution.
The Concluding volume of the Mary Baker Eddy trilogy When Robert Peel's Mary Baker Eddy : The Years of Discovery was published in 1966, reviewers in many religious, popular, and scholarly publications welcomed it as giving fresh insight into Mrs. Eddy's early life and character.