Articles
Journal Articles
July 2013
Toward a healthy world
The brief messaging back and forth predated Twitter by a couple of millennia, yet one can imagine the ancient exchange as a modern-day Tweet. Jesus is walkin...
July 2013
An injection of hope into the medical ‘apocalypse’?
The original doom-and-gloom merchants touting a coming apocalypse were religious seers.Nowadays, though, faith-based threats of calamity tend to be greeted w...
July 2013
Sincere seekers for the Christ
When I was a graduate student in Arizona many years ago, I used to take the Christian Science periodicals with me so I could read them whenever I had any spa...
July 2013
A bond of charity
One morning several years ago, as I studied the Christian Science Bible Lesson for that week on “Sacrament,” I was struck by this citation in the Responsive...
Sentinel Articles
July 1, 2013
Biking blessings
Gabriel at summer camp with horse, Decker. — Courtesy...
July 1, 2013
Love above all
If God is so good and all-powerful, how come the world is so evil?Everyone confronts this question, or a variant of it, at some point. And everyone has his o...
July 1, 2013
I was seeking healing
When I first contacted the woman who was to become my Christian Science teacher, I wasn’t seeking class instruction. I was seeking healing.I was attending co...
July 1, 2013
'What's it to you?'
Jesus would never have said it quite like that. But I like the informality, the jovial jostling of the phrase. It’s my modernized version of the Master’s exc...