Why do people rely on God/religion less in general than they did in the past?
Why do people rely on God/religion less in general than they did in the past? — from a high school studentA: Today there are oodles of self-help programs, seminars, and online cours...
Opportunities for spiritual growth
Often, when reading a Bible passage we’ve read many times before, we find some new aspect of its message occurs to us through inspiration, to encourage us and feed our thirst for things spiritual.R...
Renewal. Rebirth. New hope
Renewal. Rebirth. New hope for rejuvenating our outlook, resolving old animosities, restarting stalled careers, reconstructing war-ravaged lands. For pushing the reset button on relationships, the...
Rolling stones away
I work in a Christian Science Reading Room that is located in a small shopping mall in southwest Illinois. Like other Reading Rooms around the world, we have done our best to be well located a...
Letters
Time isn’t realI strongly relate to the spiritual journey in “A Life Transformed” (Courtenay Rule, November 2010, p. 60).When my physics professor argued that time wasn’t real, well, my reaction wa...
A prayer for church
My church in Denver has been getting together for about a year for meetings on church renewal. During a preplanning discussion to decide on topics for these meetings, I volunteered to close our fir...
'The Christ is all, in all'
Almost 20 years ago, Janet Clements began “modestly” in the Christian Science healing practice, setting aside several hours a day to pray for the world—for those who were homeless, for children who...
Cherishing true church
Before going on a trip, I pray to see and express the healing activity of the Christ.This was my prayer while traveling in Brazil —a country of exceptional beauty—in the spring of 2006. It was the...
"What is going to happen with the Christian Science church?"
Q: I have never understood prophecy. In my younger years, I thought of it as spiritualism and have held that view ever since. Recently, one member of the Board of Directors wrote that as the Board...
Mary Baker Eddy's Precious Writings
Why do translations need to be revised, and about how long does a good translation last before it needs to be substantially revised?Translator A: The first published translation of Science and...