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My teenage son had been threatened by a fellow classmate and urged to engage in a fistfight after school. He hardly knew the other student, but agreed to meet him—to face him and tell him there wouldn’t be any fight.

A Christian Science Sunday School teacher once pointed out to our class of young teens that Jesus never instructed his followers, “Worship me. ” Rather, he counseled them, “Follow me” and “Heal the sick” ( Matthew 4:19; 10:8 ).

To learn what brings about healings and to understand divine Science, it’s important to go to the books—the Bible, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, and Mary Baker Eddy’s other writings. We shouldn’t look to other people’s testimonies for guides or formulas for how we should pray.  

Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, uses an interesting term— alterative —to describe divine Truth, with its healing effect on human minds and bodies. In the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, she writes, “Truth is an alterative in the entire system, and can make it ‘every whit whole’ ” ( p.

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. 

Laura Sargent was a student in the 1884 class that Mary Baker Eddy taught in Chicago. Sargent went on to become one of Eddy’s most trusted staff members.

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.

Protests on a college campus remain surprisingly peaceful after a Christian Scientist, and the Christian Science organization on campus, pray to see God’s government reflected. 

Mental housecleaning requires diligence, as well as repeatedly and humbly turning to God until we are confident of the dominion of Love in any situation. In this way, we’ll walk over the waves of turmoil and gain peace. 

Christian Science Reading Rooms offer a beautiful antidote to the daily distractions that confront us. Within this space, one can realize the peace we all need to thrive.