Articles

A journalist prays when he loses his job due to a reorganization in his company. 

An author who volunteers as a Christian Science prison chaplain shares how she helped an inmate who was disruptive. She prayed for direction and shared with the inmate that he is God’s reflection, deeply valued by his divine Parent.  

An author worries that a sleepless night will prevent her from doing her job helping professional social workers. Prayer saves the day. 

Listening to ideas from God enabled this professor to publish a series of books over the course of 15 years, where he patiently prayed to know what to write and how to best help students of his academic institution. 

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.

This author realized more of the allness of God and it healed her of back pain.

Grasping after shadows as if they were substance, we never find the actual stuff of the universe: spiritual ideas. To the extent we seek after these divine ideas for their own sake, however, their appropriate human expression will surely appear. 

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.

Allison Stewart, Mary Baker Eddy’s publisher, objected to her using this word in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (see We Knew Mary Baker Eddy, Expanded Edition, Vol. 2, pp.

A woman once remarked to the famous naturalist John Burroughs that she didn’t have any birds in her garden. Not a one.