Overcoming injustice
Can our prayer reduce racial tension?
For this author, dealing with the troubling, entrenched issue of racism begins with a Biblically-based question: Am I truly willing to love my neighbor as God does? An incident at her local police...
Improving racial harmony by truly loving our neighbor
When a woman unjustly accused some neighbors of committing a crime, she was forced to confront—and pray about—racism. The basis for her prayers? Christ Jesus’ example of seeing each individual the...
Dissolve racism: Live as ‘children of light’
After she moved away from South Africa, this author became aware of how subtly the belief of separation had infiltrated and influenced every aspect of her life and thoughts. An encounter with a per...
The power of God to unify humanity
There is a power in knowing our true relation to our Creator—a power that unifies even when prejudice and racism would divide. Three guests share their stories of seeing this power in action on thi...
Black and white? Or brothers?
Confronted with racist behavior from the guy he'd been assigned to live with, this college student initially felt confused, hurt, and angry. But a healing insight rescued him as he prayed: They bot...
Beyond skin color
This teen couldn’t understand why a guy on social media had rejected his friend request. When it came to light that skin color might be the issue, he turned to prayer to understand more deeply that...
Blacks … Whites … Overcoming prejudice
Confronted by negative thoughts about his own skin color, this traveler prayed with the ideas he’d learned in Christian Science and was able to “cherish the idea that skin [color] was unable at any...
It’s time to elevate the human race
“It’s time,” writes this author, “to ‘stick with love’—with the courage to have our ignorance, our unjust thoughts and actions, and our fears uncovered and overcome by divine Love, which forgives a...
Freedom from racism and sectarianism
In this audio chat, the host and guest explore a Christian Science approach to dealing with racism, bias, discrimination, as well as practical spiritual ideas on how to help people with different r...
From racial profiling to ‘You are my brother’
Pulled over by a cop in what seemed partially an incident of racial profiling, this Black man was able to turn to God and hear a quiet, internal message: God was present, and his prayers to see thi...