'This message changed my life'
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures entered my life via my mother. One of my aunts had given her the book. I started reading it and was struck by its teachings.I had suffered with nervous...
A book that speaks to me
Christian Weingartner is a Christian Science practitioner in Vienna, Austria. Recently, Michael Pabst, the Assistant Managing Editor of The Herald of Christian Science, spoke with him about his exp...
No longer overweight
For 18 years I was overweight. It was not serious in the beginning, but it became worse as the years went by. In 1992 I needed European size 56 clothes, roughly size 28 in the United States.All tho...
JOURNAL WINS AWARD FOR SERIES
The Religion Communicators Council recently awarded the Journal the DeRose-Hinkhouse Certificate of Merit for a series of articles that appeared between June 2002 and December 2002. This series chr...
A foundation for healing
Several months ago a young mother telephoned and asked me to pray with her for her young son. During a medical check-up he'd been diagnosed as having a problem with one of his eyes. His mother told...
From Salt Lake to Rome— THE GLOBAL CHAIN OF SPIRITUAL AWAKENING
People from all over the world attend conferences like the one in Bethesda, Maryland. In March 2002 Christina Sloan, Italian Committee on Publication for The First Church of Christ, Scientist, atte...
LETTERS
Fresh ideas for churchThe article "Church services for a global community" [April, p. 17] is filled with inspiring ideas! Warren Bolon and Jeffrey Hildner do a remarkable job of sharing M...
The Apostle Paul's life and journeys
As part one (May 2003 issue) of this exploration of the Apostle Paul's life brought out, he was not at first a supporter of the Christian message. In fact, as a Pharisee and expert in the religious...
I started by asking, 'What can I do?'
When my department at work was phased out several years ago, I knew I needed to find a way to fill my time. At that point, I didn't want to get another full-time job. But I wanted to find ways to b...
Did you know?
Today, the Middle East is thought of as a key source of petroleum, but in Bible times, most of the oil mentioned refers to olive oil. Other oils, such as castor oil and sesame oil, were used much m...