This author prayed deeply about flexibility in thought and in body. While biblical standards and spiritual reality are givens for him, he realized he didn’t have to be so set in rigid, personal opinions.
If you’re feeling the weight of divisiveness in the world, you won’t want to miss this article’s spiritual lesson about healing hurt in a relationship.
Keeping her focus on the saving power of God’s love, this author was able to stay above what felt like a strong undertow of postpartum anxiety and fear.
The parable of the tares and the wheat from the Bible—a parable that’s also featured in another article in this issue—can help us sort through difficult memories and better understand God’s redeeming law.
This author explores why Jesus said to “ask” for healing in his name and why it isn’t outdated to do so today. It can’t just be surface words, but a true acknowledgment of the divine power that underlay Jesus’ healing works.
“God is as present in our lives as we allow Him to be,” writes this author. We can each develop the spiritualized mental posture that allows us to feel this divine presence consistently.
Though mindless scrolling seems to be the norm, it’s divine Love that moves us to engage in a more thoughtful, prayerful way with the things we encounter in our news feeds.
When this week’s guest, Lauren Crandall, ran for local office, she did something unusual: She relied on God to lead her campaign. Listen to find out how trusting and listening to God, who is Love, brought many blessings to her community.
When sometimes we seem to be coming from very different viewpoints, it is vital to go back to basic spiritual truths—such as that there is one divine Mind, God, and that each of us is governed by that one Mind—to see glimmers of resulting genuine unity.
The biblical declaration that “God so loved the world” gives each of us a context in which we can aim to see more of the true nature of others and get beyond rivalry, hatred, and division—and genuinely love more.
When troubled by world events for several nights, the author felt in despair that these circumstances were beyond her help.After yearningly reaching out to God, she was assured by hymn lyrics that her sincere prayers could help.
This author sees more clearly that her identity is not defined or limited by a state bureaucracy or a personal history and that her God-given mission in life could not be thwarted.
With the steady growth of AI or artificial intelligence, it’s incumbent on us to actively look to God for genuine answers and guidance rather than relying on material sources of information no matter how sophisticated they appear to be.
In the face of an outbreak of disease in his country, this Christian Science practitioner shares what his prayers have shown him: As we understand man’s spiritual nature, “we help lift ourselves and others out of the plague of infectious disease and the fear of it."
With the global rise of infectious disease, we have an opportunity as Christian healers to help hasten its eradication—to heal even the most serious disease as Christ Jesus did, through an understanding of God’s all-power and ever-presence.
As we’ve reached the knockout stages of the World Cup games, we chat with a former soccer player and coach who shares how he sees God’s qualities in everyone from players to fans—and how this can elevate and improve even a sports event.
“Let freedom ring!” This week’s editorial speaks eloquently about true independence and the inalienable divine rights bestowed on each one of us by our Creator.
Writing from South Africa, this author shares how she learned that the answer to water shortages—or any kind of shortage—lies in understanding more about God as the true and boundless source of supply.
There’s almost nothing worse than that helpless feeling of someone else having control over your life. But our guest this week, Ann Kneeland, tells us about how what she’s learned about God governing as divine Principle has freed her from everyday uncomfortable encounters and even oppressive situations. And she explains that this freedom is available for everyone.
When you hear the word Christ, you might think of the man Jesus. But Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered Christian Science, defines Christ differently—and she makes it clear that it’s not just Jesus' title. So what is it? This week’s guest, Nate Talbot, shares what he’s learned about the activity of Christ and its essential role in spiritual healing.
Can we really strike a bargain with God? Well, “in asking for God’s help to accomplish a goal that genuinely reflects the goodness of our creator,” writes this author, “we give up, even if only a little, the very thinking that was tuning that help out.”
How do we think about Jesus’ legacy as a healer two thousand years later? George Nutwell, this week’s guest, shares how we can continue to follow in Jesus’ footsteps today through our study of Christian Science—and our own practice of spiritual healing.
After wanting to know more about God since childhood and visiting different churches, this author was introduced to Christian Science and started studying it, which led to a significant healing.
This week, we delve into a period of Mary Baker Eddy’s life when she was discovering the Science of spiritual healing for herself. Michael Hamilton, who works at The Mary Baker Eddy Library, shares his research into this specific era of her life, and how her writings, over one hundred years later, brought healing to his life.
Read Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy from cover to cover? Our guest, Medara Udoekong, was only a teenager when his mom encouraged him to read the book in its entirety. But as he tells us, 700 pages seemed less daunting after he began reading and his life started to change for the better.
When a dear friend and former housemate gifts her a copy of the Christian Science textbook, this author doesn’t read it right away. But she picks it up years later and is blessed and healed.
This author was waking up every morning restless and afraid because his small business was not earning enough to pay the bills. As he earnestly prayed each day, his trust in God grew, and answers began to surface.
This author discovered that rather than condemning herself for functional alcoholism, understanding her God-given worth would put her on the path to healing. As her desire to know God’s love grew, the drinking dropped away.
Writing from Uganda, this author shares how difficult childhood circumstances led her to look for a more solid, spiritual view of happiness and life. She found it in Science and Health.
A woman left behind a medical career and much more after attending a life-changing Christian Science lecture and hearing that God doesn’t share His power with anyone. She left behind rituals and stepped into a whole new way of living.
Searching for a Christian denomination that “made practical the healing works that Jesus did and said we could do,” this author discovered in Christian Science a divine, scientific basis for experiencing God’s healing power.
For this teen, feeling sick wasn’t the only issue she was facing; she was also feeling scared and unsettled about a friendship that had fallen apart. Could one prayer resolve both issues?
Sometimes it seems like our lives are full of scary things we have to deal with. But as this author discovered, when we see these problems through the lens of Christian Science, we don’t have to be intimidated by them anymore.
Feeling overwhelmed by all the problems in the world, this author got new insight into God’s presence and love from a place she didn’t expect: a choir concert.
At first, when her neck was hurting, all this teen wanted was to feel better. But as she prayed, she found that the healing was about something so much bigger than that.
Sometimes, when you’re facing something difficult, it feels like the only answer is to run around trying to find a solution. This author, however, learned the efficacy of literally and figuratively standing still.
After one Sunday School class and a significant spiritual insight, this student went from being terrible at math to understanding it naturally. Read on to find out how that happened.
Right at the moment when it seemed like God couldn’t possibly exist, this college student found proof that God is real, and actually present and caring for us.
It’s no fun to wake up not feeling well, but as this author learned, that doesn’t have to dictate the way your whole day goes. Quick healing is always possible!
“I was pretty scared about the trip and the injury, but I realized I didn’t have to let fear keep me from feeling confident in the spiritual truths I was learning.”
“I could hear my mommy running toward us and saying something. But I didn’t know what she was saying because I was hearing God even louder in my thoughts.”
“I like reading other kids’ testimonies because it gives me proof that healings through prayer are possible and that they happen every day, even to kids like me.”
“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.”
Read about how a church membership pulls together after a driver crashes into their building. What they learned has implications for every congregation.
With Lynn Jackson, Scott Shivers, Anjuli Carr, and Audrey MacKenzie
If you’re not really interested in church, or feeling a lack of motivation to go, our guests this week may inspire you to see things a bit differently. They share what church means to them, and how it not only blesses us, but our communities and the world.
Stay in the loop with updates on the latest Bible collection on JSH-Online.com, a note from the Treasurer of The Mother Church, and previous church news from Boston and beyond.
The Christian Science Quarterly Thanksgiving Bible Lesson is available to read and share. There’s also a new Bible collection on spiritual sight on JSH-Online.com. And if you haven’t read about it, there will be a summit in Australia in November.
The Concord team just released the Manual of The Mother Church by Mary Baker Eddy for digital study in four new languages—French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish. And stay up to speed with other news, including the Monitor’s back-to-school issue, a summit at Principia College, and new pamphlets for teens.
If we feel our churches are hampered by the division that can come from adhering to cultural norms, we can find a freer, more joyful expression of Church by focusing on the primary importance of our love for God and each other.
Bringing to Wednesday testimony meetings the spiritual consciousness that heals and testifying to the power of divine Truth to restore harmony and health—that’s what makes a truly healing meeting.
Learn how readers have been inspired by the 2025 book, Christian Science: Continuing Evidence of Christ-Healing. And if you haven’t already seen it, watch a fun and informative video about to how to mark the Bible lesson in the Bible and Science and Health.
“I knew that whatever adjustment is necessary, Truth makes it—in thought. Truth shows us our real, spiritual nature, rather than a material counterfeit.”
“There can never be a moment when I am not completely embraced in divine Love. So I didn’t have to wait to experience it—to be free from every symptom of illness.”
“It was important to me that this job change not be something that I was trying to will into existence. I wanted to understand that this entire experience was unfolding through God’s direction, not mine.”