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How can I stop scrolling? 

If you’re struggling to get off your phone, this author has some spiritual insights—gained from her own prayers about how to stop scrolling—that can help.
Learn about a rotation in office on the Board of Trustees, and about how to tune in to Annual Meeting, which this year centers on the theme, “Ye are the light of the world. Let your light so shine....” - Matthew 5:14, 16

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A spiritual approach to healthcare

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series on a spiritual approach to healthcare.

From Pregnancy and childbirth

For expectant mothers

The more fully we accept the spiritual nature of birth, the more effortlessly we can demonstrate that nothing has occurred from which one needs to recover.

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A man finds these words, “His [God’s] arm encircles me,” from a poem by Mary Baker Eddy, inscribed on a D-Day memorial headstone in Normandy, France—and he discovers that the spiritual signification of those words heals the grieving heart. 

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No more ruminating 

When the writer is unable to sleep peacefully through the nights and begins ruminating over a number of pressing issues, prayer brings her a clearer sense of her oneness with God—and peace of mind. 
Can we break free from the past? Can it define or scar us? The Bible story of three Hebrew men who escaped a hot furnace, unharmed and untouched, serves as a powerful example that we can live “unencumbered by past experiences.” 
Christ Jesus decisively illustrates divine abundance, available to supply even the most acute human need.

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Where is God when bad things happen?

Have you ever asked yourself where God is when you’re faced with bad news? We invite you to listen to each episode and discover ideas that spark hope and inspiration.

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A spiritual approach to healthcare

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series on a spiritual approach to healthcare.

From Living the Lord's Prayer

'OUR FATHER ...'

The Lord's Prayer sparks the recognition that divine Love is always with us.

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From Overcoming grief

What death does not do

We go on gaining moment by moment in the understanding that God is the only real Life.

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“It is good for us to be here” 

Praying to support her church’s service, this author heard a message from God that shed new light on what a visitor might find inside: “The church service itself is the feast that hungering hearts have been invited to by their Father-Mother God, and we can know that they will leave grateful for the truths they’ve received during the service.”
Even though her dad was a Christian Scientist, it wasn’t until this college student needed answers to life’s big questions that the message came to pick up Science and Health for herself.
Find out about one man’s “walk with God”—and his spiritual reward.
“As I make my understanding of God bigger by learning more about Him—and then hold tightly to this bigger and bigger sense of God—it lifts me up, and I feel happy.”
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Held in Spirit, not “in irons” 

When we feel stuck, thwarted, constrained—what sailors call “in irons”—it’s freeing to know that for any problem we’re facing, there’s always a spiritual solution. Christian Science reveals what it is.