This week's issue | February 22, 2021
Discovering eternal life—here and now
March 1, 2021
The truth about fear
February 1, 2021
Breaking free from a restrictive life
February 8, 2021
Love that never changes
February 15, 2021
Our true home, our true health
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Editorial
Discovering eternal life—here and now
Deborah Huebsch, Guest Editorial Writer
Over the years, an awareness that life is neither confined to mortality nor a fragile thread easily broken had been growing as I studied the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.
Article
From loss to Life
By Anna-Zoë Herr
An understanding of Life as God suddenly became imperative when my father passed on unexpectedly, presenting me with the greatest challenge I’d ever faced.
Article
Standing on the Rock
By Laura BonneCarrere
The harmony and well-being of our daily lives may be challenged severely, but nothing can upend them as we stand on the Rock, Truth, and on Jesus’ demonstrations of victory over discordant circumstances through trust in and the understanding of God.
Article
Cast off those mental tatters!
By Karen Neff
The antagonistic force of personal will only serves to strengthen entrenched beliefs.
Article
Hymns can help!
By Fletcher
One day my mom took me to the bike track, but I was scared of going down bumpy hills. I decided to sing Hymn 1 from the Christian Science Hymnal.
Testimony of Healing
Job and home found through prayer
By Charlotte G. Kinney
I was hired on the spot.
THIS WEEK'S EXCLUSIVES
Voices and prayers from the field
How are you praying about recent events in Washington, DC?
By Emma Herman, Alexandre Fischer, Libby Hoffman
The invasion of the United States Capitol last month sounded alarm bells. And they are pealing even louder as a result of a recent survey revealing that about 30 percent of Americans feel that if elected leaders aren’t going to “protect” America, the people must do it themselves, even if it means resorting to violence.
TeenConnect: Your Healings
Finding “my people” through prayer
By Name withheld
While she was friendly with many of the students at her school, this teen yearned for a friend group of her own. When she began to pray about friendship, she not only ended up finding “her people,” but she got something even more profound: a deeper and more solid understanding of God’s love.
Sentinel Watch
Omniaction: God’s unlabored motion includes you
with Deborah Huebsch, Amy Richmond, and Jenny Sawyer
On this week’s Sentinel Watch, we’re talking about God as the source of all action, and how understanding this fact propels forward movement in our thoughts, in our health, and even in the world.
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Testimony of Healing
Menstrual pain gone for good
By Rachael Myrow
I knew I had to stop seeing prayer as a ticket to temporary relief. I had to heal my thinking about this recurring pain.
Testimony of Healing
Quick healing after a fall
By Carol Howard Maddock
I turned my attention to the truth of God’s precise, continuous government of all creation.
Sentinel Bible Lens
Shining a light on the weekly Bible Lessons published in the Christian Science Quarterly®
Letters
Letters & Conversations
By Sharon Brooks, John Challenger, Lisa Wood
We love hearing from our readers. Here’s the conversation this week.
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Editorial
The truth about fear
By Ethel A. Baker
Knowing that heaven-born peace is permanently ours as God’s reflection, we can always refuse entrance to fear—for ourselves, for humanity—seeing it for the baseless fallacy it is.
Keeping Watch
Praying with spiritual authority
By Michael Mooslin
The same power Jesus expressed is available today to all who follow Christ’s commands.
Keeping Watch
“You can’t untoast toast"
By Ginger Emden
The inner calm that comes from experiencing God brings outward harmony. This spiritual peace we experience in thought can’t be undone.
Keeping Watch
On the alert
By Lena Rubbeling
To be mentally alert is to stay attuned to God, to listen to the voice of the Christ continually, regardless of where we are and what we are doing.
TeenConnect: Trending
Healed of depression
By Stephanie Summerlin
It seemed like no one—not my parents, my teachers, or my friends—knew how to help me.
THIS WEEK'S EXCLUSIVES
Voices and prayers from the field
How are you praying about recent events in Washington, DC?
By Emma Herman, Alexandre Fischer, Libby Hoffman
The invasion of the United States Capitol last month sounded alarm bells. And they are pealing even louder as a result of a recent survey revealing that about 30 percent of Americans feel that if elected leaders aren’t going to “protect” America, the people must do it themselves, even if it means resorting to violence.
TeenConnect: Your Healings
Finding “my people” through prayer
By Name withheld
While she was friendly with many of the students at her school, this teen yearned for a friend group of her own. When she began to pray about friendship, she not only ended up finding “her people,” but she got something even more profound: a deeper and more solid understanding of God’s love.
Sentinel Watch
Omniaction: God’s unlabored motion includes you
with Deborah Huebsch, Amy Richmond, and Jenny Sawyer
On this week’s Sentinel Watch, we’re talking about God as the source of all action, and how understanding this fact propels forward movement in our thoughts, in our health, and even in the world.
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Testimony of Healing
Child healed of injuries from bike accident
By Patrick McCreary with contributions from Suzy Shepard, Judith McCreary Felch
There was no ongoing suffering, disfigurement, or anything that prevented me from having an exciting and joy-filled adventure along with the rest of the family.
Testimony of Healing
Flu symptoms healed
By Alice Chedister Ellis
A few days before Thanksgiving of 2019, I went shopping with a friend who is a retired medical nurse.
Testimony of Healing
Scalding quickly healed
By Alexis Deacon
Instead of being mesmerized by pain, I felt Love’s tangible, healing presence.
Letters & Conversations
Letters & Conversations
By Christopher Bowers, Richard Arlen, Aleta Spence
We love hearing from our readers. Here’s the conversation this week.
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Editorial
Breaking free from a restrictive life
By Russ Gerber
Nothing overcomes the limits of material living as effectively as growing in our spiritual understanding and expressing that in more loving lives.
Article
Hems and crumbs—a search for healing
By Cheryl Ranson
Like the two women who approached Christ Jesus, I realized I would go to any lengths for even a crumb of spiritual understanding.
Article
When the unexpected happened
By Michelle Douglas-Joffe
How would we pay our bills? How would we put food on the table?
Article
Prayer and protection from wildfire
By Carol Coykendall Raner
I knew I needed to pray immediately, but the fire seemed so frightening that it was difficult to think of anything else. What helped me was asking myself, “How does God see things right now?”
TeenConnect: Your Healings
Healed of mono
By Gracie Sampson
This healing gave me a lot more confidence in my ability to pray for myself.
THIS WEEK'S EXCLUSIVES
Voices and prayers from the field
How are you praying about recent events in Washington, DC?
By Emma Herman, Alexandre Fischer, Libby Hoffman
The invasion of the United States Capitol last month sounded alarm bells. And they are pealing even louder as a result of a recent survey revealing that about 30 percent of Americans feel that if elected leaders aren’t going to “protect” America, the people must do it themselves, even if it means resorting to violence.
TeenConnect: Your Healings
Finding “my people” through prayer
By Name withheld
While she was friendly with many of the students at her school, this teen yearned for a friend group of her own. When she began to pray about friendship, she not only ended up finding “her people,” but she got something even more profound: a deeper and more solid understanding of God’s love.
Sentinel Watch
Omniaction: God’s unlabored motion includes you
with Deborah Huebsch, Amy Richmond, and Jenny Sawyer
On this week’s Sentinel Watch, we’re talking about God as the source of all action, and how understanding this fact propels forward movement in our thoughts, in our health, and even in the world.
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Testimony of Healing
Shoulder injury healed
By Kristin Jamerson
I leaned in to the work of spiritually discerning my innate unity with God.
Testimony of Healing
Child healed of fever and convulsions
By Helen Farmer
One day when our son was a toddler, he was running a high fever and started having convulsions.
Testimony of Healing
Knee injury healed
By John Caldwell
While downhill skiing several years ago, I felt something give way in my knee as I was going around a mogul.
Letters
Letters & Conversations
By Roberta Sperling, Benjamin M. Martin
We love hearing from our readers. Here’s the conversation this week.
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Editorial
Love that never changes
By Larissa Snorek
Looking for love means looking to more fully express God.
Article
Hugs are great, but we can do more to help
By Suzanne Riedel
Beginning to realize the nature of God as divine Love opens a whole new and infinite context for loving others thoughtfully, and for renewed trust in God’s power to heal.
Article
Original innocence and genuine forgiveness
By Brian Kissock
For me, forgiveness was a gradual process helped by my study of the Bible and the writings of Mary Baker Eddy.
Article
From pressure to patience
By Emma Herman
This was what I had actually been wanting this whole time—to feel and know Love better.
Kids' Video
A valentine . . . from God?
By Jenny Sawyer
We don’t have to wait for Valentine’s Day to feel loved.
THIS WEEK'S EXCLUSIVES
Voices and prayers from the field
How are you praying about recent events in Washington, DC?
By Emma Herman, Alexandre Fischer, Libby Hoffman
The invasion of the United States Capitol last month sounded alarm bells. And they are pealing even louder as a result of a recent survey revealing that about 30 percent of Americans feel that if elected leaders aren’t going to “protect” America, the people must do it themselves, even if it means resorting to violence.
TeenConnect: Your Healings
Finding “my people” through prayer
By Name withheld
While she was friendly with many of the students at her school, this teen yearned for a friend group of her own. When she began to pray about friendship, she not only ended up finding “her people,” but she got something even more profound: a deeper and more solid understanding of God’s love.
Sentinel Watch
Omniaction: God’s unlabored motion includes you
with Deborah Huebsch, Amy Richmond, and Jenny Sawyer
On this week’s Sentinel Watch, we’re talking about God as the source of all action, and how understanding this fact propels forward movement in our thoughts, in our health, and even in the world.
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Testimony of Healing
Laceration healed
By G. Christopher Cheney
A meaningful healing occurred for me last summer.
Testimony of Healing
Freedom from addiction to sleep medication
By Bonnie Wiggins
At one point in my life, I had been addicted to a prescribed sleeping pill for over 12 years.
Testimony of Healing
Digestion issues healed
By Shannon Nordling
One spring after college, I worked for a local museum, running a youth camp as its only program leader.
Letters
Letters & Conversations
By Martha Doran, Susan Searle, David A. Cornell
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Editorial
Our true home, our true health
By Tony Lobl
God gives us His spiritual ideas, and in turn, they lead us to our home in Soul, our true existence.
Article
Rent is due? God has an answer for you.
By Diane Williamson
I acknowledged that because God is my loving Father-Mother, my divine Parent, my needs are always supplied.
Glimpses of Truth
Our home in God
By Conrad Heath
I look forward to being in my right place by holding on to good and loving thoughts.
Article
Never the wrong time or place for good
By Nancy Humphrey Case
Since God is the unlimited source of all good, His supply is always full and available.
Article
Getting our history straight
By Rachel Hanson
Our true “history”—our eternal reality—is actually spiritual and good because we’re made in the likeness of God.
THIS WEEK'S EXCLUSIVES
Voices and prayers from the field
How are you praying about recent events in Washington, DC?
By Emma Herman, Alexandre Fischer, Libby Hoffman
The invasion of the United States Capitol last month sounded alarm bells. And they are pealing even louder as a result of a recent survey revealing that about 30 percent of Americans feel that if elected leaders aren’t going to “protect” America, the people must do it themselves, even if it means resorting to violence.
TeenConnect: Your Healings
Finding “my people” through prayer
By Name withheld
While she was friendly with many of the students at her school, this teen yearned for a friend group of her own. When she began to pray about friendship, she not only ended up finding “her people,” but she got something even more profound: a deeper and more solid understanding of God’s love.
Sentinel Watch
Omniaction: God’s unlabored motion includes you
with Deborah Huebsch, Amy Richmond, and Jenny Sawyer
On this week’s Sentinel Watch, we’re talking about God as the source of all action, and how understanding this fact propels forward movement in our thoughts, in our health, and even in the world.
Sign up for the Sentinel email newsletters
Stay in the loop with our go-to email newsletters. You'll find timely, curated content and online issue updates, designed to keep your prayer watch focused and fortified. Delivered straight to your inbox each week.
Article
How I’ve been praying during COVID-19
By Gavin Kirn
I prayed not only for myself but also for my dad’s business and for the rest of the country.
Testimony of Healing
Employment found through God’s guidance
By Paul Sedan
The idea came as clearly as if spoken out loud that I should call the personnel director of an organization I cared about deeply.
Testimony of Healing
Prayer routs flu symptoms
By Susan Lapointe
One morning a few months ago, I awoke not feeling like myself, with symptoms that were flu-like.
Testimony of Healing
Spiritual growth brings freedom from eczema
By Nancy L. Martin
Step by step, I could identify, claim, and demonstrate my pure, spiritual wholeness, and this growing understanding would have a tangible effect in the healing of my body.
Testimony of Healing
No room for pain
By Susan Stark
I still feel the joy of that moment when I really knew that I forever live in the secure arms of Love.
Letters
Letters & Conversations
By Theresa Talley, Mike McNabb, Madeline Cassidy
We love hearing from our readers. Here’s the conversation this week.
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