Let's look this right in the eye
Facing down the seeming reality of the material senses with Truth.
‘Not for ease’
He had a corporate job, with a long commute to and from Chicago’s Loop, and plenty of satisfying church and other volunteer work on the weekends. But Ron Mangelsdorf had one over-arching desire: “t...
'The Bible is not a mystery novel...'
Long before cellphones, PAM DEBOLT pumped a dime into the pay phone at her high school in Stockton, California, and called her mom between classes. The two were close, so checking in a couple of ti...
When it comes to the practice, what are your thoughts about what Mary Baker Eddy says?
Q. When it comes to the practice, what are your thoughts about what Mary Baker Eddy says, “. . . we must first learn to bind up the broken-hearted” (Science and Health, p. 366)?A. As a Christian Sc...
The healing of pain
Pain is eliminated when we understand that thought, not the body, produces it, and that pain is no part of the divine Mind, God, whom we reflect.
One little leaf
One little leaf is waving at me— its fellow leaves already drifted down to meet the ground, performed their final danceof the season. But this little guy is hanging on— he seems to know I’m here...
Letters
In our ClosetI was particularly inspired with a new recollection and spiritual significance about an experience I had that came about while reading Questions and Answers in the March issue of the J...
Constant guidance
One morning, during my daily bicycle ride, I followed the usual trail. At one point along my route there is a .2 mile loop. On my path around the loop, one man was with his young son. Most mornings...
The naturalness of healing
“miracle 1: an extraordinary event manifesting divine intervention in human affairs . . . 3: Christian Science: a divinely natural phenomenon experienced humanly as the fulfillment of spiritual law...
Love at the helm
Love under and over, within and without Lifting and filling, my white sail taut My mast bends—though anchored strong Through meekness it lends Love’s primal song Humble...