All needs supplied
I've come to understand that our church’s financial needs are not dependent on each member or their savings accounts. Praying to know that supply is coming directly from God, divine Principle,...
Rolling away the stone
Rolling Away the Stone, by Stephen Gottschalk, was first released in 2006 to favorable reviews. Most of them highlighted the fact that this new biography of Mary Baker Eddy was top-drawer scholarsh...
Church: A daily activity
Every Sunday morning, I get ready and rush to beat the traffic in Nairobi to attend the weekly service at my branch Church of Christ, Scientist. When I arrive there, we all sit together as we wait...
Mortal, human, divine—a conversation with Judy Wolff
During her college years, JUDY WOLFF witnessed a dramatic Christian Science healing of her mother from the late stages of a lung disease that had afflicted her intermittently since childhood. That...
Living Christly Love
Christ Jesus the Ensample. He who dated the Christian era is the Ensample in Christian Science. Careless comparison or irreverent reference to Christ Jesus is abnormal in a Christian...
‘The symptoms disappeared’
More than once I have walked into a Christian Science church service with a problem and walked out with a solution. So this year, when I wasn’t feeling well prior to a Sunday service, I didn’t hesi...
'I like to think we're "being church"'
A few years back, I was praying about my Christian Science healing practice. At the time, my practice was largely made up of Christian Scientists, and I really wanted a new frontier, one where...
Life and... life
“I can’t begin to tell you how many times I was on my knees asking, ‘Father, what is your plan for your beloved child?’ ” —says Diane Marrapodi about the recent years she spent taking care of her p...
Gratitude for the periodicals
When I was a young Christian Scientist, I used to get up at 5:00 a.m. and pick up The Christian Science Monitors at the bus station and put them in the news racks in San Jose, California. I did thi...
My first healing
I am relatively new to Christian Science and learned about it from a co-worker of mine, who is now a dear friend. Before this time, I had heard of Christian Science but hadn’t really known what it...