Editorials

When Franz Anton Mesmer began exploring the nature and action of the human mind a little over two hundred years ago, few people realized the significance of what would become widely known as mesmerism or hypnotism. When Mary Baker Eddy realized the nature and action of this mesmerism over one hundred years ago, few people understood what she was explaining.

Theology is defined in one dictionary as "the field of study, thought, and analysis that treats of God, His attributes, and His relations to the universe. " Theology essentially concerns itself with the "nature and will of God as revealed to man.

The human mind is very much on the minds of researchers these days. It comes as no surprise that researchers aren't the only ones who are fascinated with the subject.

Self-government. It's vital to our lives.

My dad was a patent attorney. So it's not surprising that he often knew of a new product way before it was introduced into the market, and was champing-at-the-bit eager to talk about it as soon as it was.

It must have been a remarkable event to have witnessed. An army officer had sought out a certain man to help him.

The other day I happened to tune in to a religious program on the radio and heard a woman telling the host that the devil had been speaking to her. She described the experience as the devil sending her thoughts.

Sermons have had some bad press in the twentieth century. Some people tend to think of them as boring and preachy.

Bostonians sometimes talk about Christian Science as if it were a place. Many of them associate it with the architectural complex surrounding The Mother Church.

At times, society's attempts to redefine basic morality can cause a collective gasp, even among the most jaded observers. That was very likely what occurred not long ago when the Internet edition of Britain's Daily Telegraph reported the views of a well-known church bishop who was conducting a series of seminars in Scotland on the subject of "sex and Christianity.