Welcome

As the new year begins, we invite you to ponder the ever-fresh healing ideas shared in the Christian Science periodicals.

Christmas is a wonderful time to revel in the priceless gift that God gave to us in Jesus. And this issue highlights some of the lessons in the Christmas story. But these insights don’t have to be seasonal.

A welcome to this issue of The Christian Science Journal that talks about gratitude, Adam and Eve, and God’s perfect goodness.

For any spiritual insight to be understood, to have a lasting impact, it must be lived. In this issue of the Journal, contributors share how the textbook inspired them and has shaped their lives through healing. These articles and testimonies show that Science and Health remains as relevant today as at its first publication—it’s awe-inspiring to glimpse spiritual reality through its pages.

The writer read the issue with this question in mind—What truly brings about effective healing?—and found many healing ideas and examples of healing. 

Whether you cherry-pick one article or pore over each page of this issue, one point rings clear: There is hope amid life’s pressing problems. 

The “extraordinary claims” of Christian Science are indeed accompanied by “extraordinary evidence.” And just as spiritual thinkers spread the good news of divine reality and its fruits centuries ago, we’re happy to publish what’s happening on the spiritual front—in thought and experience—now.

In June, some parts of several northern hemisphere countries experience a midnight sun, with days of no darkness at all. We hope these pages help lead you to a metaphorical day with no night—to days full of spiritual light. 

In its own way, each contribution illustrates the great value of church, and how essential it is to our spiritual growth, and ultimately, the successful practice of Christian Science. 

Hope is as essential to each of us as wind is to a sailboat. When things are going wrong and the journey ahead looks dark, we may feel stranded in the shallows of frustration and fear. But what keeps us moving forward is hope.