Columns & Sections
Columns
Branching out
Examples of inspiring and healing activity in branch churches, societies, and informal groups
Friends, let’s cherish the Explanatory Note together
The explanatory note sets the tone for reading the Christian Science Bible Lesson-Sermon. It’s all-inclusive greeting of “friends” says the church service is meant for everyone, everywhere.
Pathways to the practice
Individuals share how they became Christian Science practitioners
Finding a deeper sense of Christianity
I didn’t grow up in a Christian Science family. But as an active member of another Protestant church whose members loved the Bible, I believed deeply in the power of prayer.
The Bible: Our Sufficient Guide
Accounts of healing and inspiration gained from a deep study of the Bible
Christmas and handling the Herod-thought
How we can pray to see the powerlessness of the “Herod-thought”—the mental resistance to God’s law of peace and harmony.
Of Good Report
Present-day examples of “whatsoever things are of good report” (Philippians 4:8)
Believe the true report
What God reports is always accurate, and pure and true messages constantly flow to us, since we are His children.
Spiritual Shorts
Big ideas in small packages
We must gravitate Godward—it’s a law
The Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, may not have been an institutionally educated scholar of the natural sciences, but I find her insights about the laws of nature and their applied relevance to health and human affairs to be breathtaking. Take her statement in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, “Mortals must gravitate Godward, their affections and aims grow spiritual.