From music teaching to Christian healing
From December 11 to 13, a wide range of people from the fields of science, theology, and medicine will gather in Boston for the eighth Harvard conference on "Spirituality and Healing in Medici...
Young family men in the practice
Entering the public practice of Christian Science is an entirely individual demonstration. No two people will have exactly the same experience. One element, however, is basic to all who make this m...
Christian Science, spirituality, and the sciences: discovery and progress
During the Annual Meeting of The Mother Church on June 7, Warren Bolon, a contributing editor to the Christian Science periodicals, chaired a discussion with three physical scientists. They discuss...
Women as "elect of God"
Intense debate over who is the elect of God may seem more appropriate to the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries than to the nearly twenty-first. Yet the issue of who has the right to speak and teach...
Sunday School: solid base for a lifetime
Recently we received the transcript of a discussion that took place between a Christian Science Sunday School teacher, Michael Taylor, and a former Sunday School student, Ingrid Marthaler Peschke....
Restoration and progress in a Reading Room
Almost all branch churches have to face, at one time or another, some soul-searching questions about their Reading Room: Why is our Reading Room here? Are we accomplishing our goals? Are we truly s...
"Spirituality & Healing in Medicine" —a discussion of the conference
As reported earlier (The Christian Science Monitor, December 6 and 8, 1995; Christian Science Sentinel, January 8 and 15, 1996; The Christian Science Journal, February 1996) a symposium entitled &q...
Christian Scientists and their neighbors
Editor's note: Hazel Joynes, a contributing editor from England, met with four Christian Scientists in Yorkshire last October. They were Joyce Mallinson, Ralph Mallinson, Nancy McCrae, and Eileen (...
A grateful parent, not a watchdog
Jennifer Shipman Bonwich lives in a 110-year-old farmhouse near St. Louis, Missouri, with her husband, Joe, their five daughters (including two sets of twins) all under the age of eleven, and five...
The door to freedom was open
Serene Mullan is a Christian Science practitioner in Bombay, India. She spoke with journalist Cynthia Gray about her search for truth and freedom.I was brought up in the Zoroastrian faith. It is ba...