Editorials

Have you ever seen pictures of the Sinai Peninsula, where the children of Israel journeyed for forty years? The landscape is often stark: barren, arid, and desolate. Moses had urged the Israelites to leave Egypt and their life of bondage and to follow him to Canaan, to the land that God had promised to Abraham and his descendants forever.

The effect of spiritual Truth in consciousness is change—improvement—in both the human mind and body. This process of improvement, of spiritual development and progress, plays a key role in the practice of Christian Science healing.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God.

My boyhood friends and I loved to go hiking and climbing around in the local foothills as often as we could. I recall how vigorously we would scale the jagged rocks.

How can a church, or any organization for that matter, pare down ritualized traditions that could deaden its effectiveness?

Imagine the wonder of the wise men when they saw the babe Jesus—the human manifestation of the Son of God, or Christ. "When they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.

In the spring of 1879, a little band of earnest seekers after Truth went into deliberations over forming a church without creeds, to be called the "Church of Christ, Scientist. " They were members of evangelical churches, and students of Mrs.

There was urgency in his voice as Dr. Eugene Habecker, president of the American Bible Society (ABS), described the challenge of "post-literacy," a phenomenon of twentieth-century society that, he says, keeps people in Western culture from reading the Bible.

There are people whose hearts burn with gratitude even in the midst of hardship. The Pilgrims who founded the first permanent European colonial settlement in New England in 1620 suffered continuous hardship.

Have you been thinking that the church you attend isn't what you want it or expect it to be? Maybe you think it's dull or restrictive, something uninspiring. If what you're thinking about Church is unattractive, if it's something you don't care to unite with, consider the significance of seeing Church from a different standpoint.