Editorials

The Church Manual by Mary Baker Eddy is in a sense the constitution of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, The Mother Church of Christian Science, setting out the responsibilities of members, Church officers, The Mother Church, branch churches, etc. But what if, in addition to viewing the Manual as a set of Church rules, we saw it especially as a guidebook for living, a conceptual framework for everything we do?—from relationships to family to career.

If you’ve never had a “performance review,” you may not know what it’s like to come face to face with how a manager or your colleagues view you and your work. I came away from a review once with a list of 15 areas in which I needed to improve.

While reading The Christian Science Monitor online, I was invited to take a survey on the civilian use of drones. After a few questions about my views, the survey finished by asking me to rate myself on a scale from “very liberal” to “very conservative.

In the larger scheme of things, the divine Comforter is teaching us that a mortal view of reality is fading out. All that Christ Jesus proved about immortality is gradually breaking into human consciousness.

The restless narrator of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick confessed to feeling “a damp, drizzly November in my soul. ” It was never just a month, but a state of thought.

Et cetera. That’s Latin for “and other things.

A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

In  Science and Health   with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy explains ideas that she found in the Bible. One of these is that sickness is “error.

One July, shortly after I had turned six, my mom signed me up for swimming lessons at the town pool. I loved playing in the water with my friends.

As I glanced over the newspaper headlines of the day, it was easy to understand what people mean when they refer to the evils of the world. Christ Jesus spoke of overcoming the world (see John 16:33 ).