If practicing Christian Science is about more than just fixing our problems, then what is the higher goal? This week, we speak with Bob Cochran, who shares what he’s learned is the goal and how this new understanding has strengthened and blessed his practice of Christian Science.
Aiming to follow God’s direction in whatever our lifework is, enables us to bless and be blessed. Despite obstacles, the author followed his highest calling, wholeheartedly going into the public practice of Christian Science healing, contributing meaningfully to others’ lives.
Concerned about age and the limitations that seem to come with it? This week’s guests, Alison Hughes and Abe McLaughlin, share refreshing perspectives and experiences on how Christian Science has taught them—and how they’ve proven—that we are actually ageless.
Whether we feel as though we’re falling short in our own lives or as a nation, the spiritual fact of divine sufficiency dissolves that misperception and empowers our practice.
What can we learn from children? This week’s guest says it’s “how to be better healers.” Join Lisle Staley Stigler and host David Brown to discover more about the childlike qualities that make our healing practice come alive.
How do we best serve our fellow man, rather than rule over him? Christ Jesus is our model, illustrating the power of humility, compassion, and prayer in bringing the good news that the kingdom of heaven is here on earth today.
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.”
With Quinna, Matthew, Fiona, Daphne, Ben, Rusty, Chance, Minette, Shirlynn
You won’t want to miss this week’s episode—a compilation of young voices sharing some of their favorite healings from their practice of Christian Science. Join host Carlos Machado as he talks with kids and teens at a summer camp for Christian Scientists.
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.
Is Jesus’ command to love your neighbor just too big of an ask … at least in some situations? This week’s guest, Robert Schult, doesn’t think so. In fact, the love that Jesus taught and lived is the love we can live, too. And the experiences Robert shares in this episode are proof that this love actually heals.
Fighting lawlessness with more lawlessness doesn’t move anyone forward. When we yearn to go beyond just feeling settled, we can understand, accept and practice the higher law of Love, God.
There’s no situation or circumstance that’s too big or impossible for God, as this author learned when a potentially devastating fire broke out in her community.
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.
Working prayerfully for regeneration in her community, the author contributed to the significant turnaround of an individual who’d posed a threat to a large part of the community. This gave strong evidence of a Christly, restorative approach bringing healing.
When we encounter Goliath-type traits or actions in either small situations or larger arenas, we can learn from David’s biblical example of trust in God’s all-power and can expect to see evidence of the ultimate powerlessness of anything not of God.
When something is stolen from her son, this author realizes that she needs to turn to God in humility, especially after authorities urge her just to accept that nothing much can be done.
This week, we speak with George Nutwell, who shares inspiring stories and insights on God’s ever-present, practical help when we feel unsafe. Paige Matthys-Pearce also joins us. She was in Jordan when a conflict between Israel and Iran broke out, and shares how she prayed about—and witnessed—peace.
Divine Love meets people’s needs, no matter how dire, as the author saw when a man described to her how walking into a Christian Science service had prevented him from committing violence elsewhere.
This week, we hear from two guests, Chiemezi Elvis Ahanonu and Volodymyr Hrimov, who were both new to practicing Christian Science when they were faced with conflict in their countries. What they both experienced proves God’s ever-present power is real and tangible.
As we pray for our world today, we can take lessons from what Science and Health explains about Jesus’ three days in the tomb and what led to his resurrection. Prayerfully surrendering to and trusting God’s universal healing action is vital.
The groundbreaking discovery of Christian Science and the practice of it are transformative in individual lives and in society as a whole. As our consciousness shifts from a material to a spiritual basis, we contribute to genuine, on-going progress for humanity.
“It’s becoming increasingly clear to me that every single bit of genuine good in my own life, my community, my country, or the world is from God. Every bit of good is evidence of the ever-presence of the kingdom of God.”
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.
Is there more to the Fifth Commandment, “Honour thy father and thy mother” (Exodus 20:12), than respect and obedience? Our guest Jonathon Eder talks with host David Brown about how this commandment has actually taught him more about how to honor God, and how that’s brought healing in his life.
As we near Mother’s Day in some countries including the United States and Australia, this mother shares that recognizing God as the Father and Mother of each of us puts the parent-child relationship on the right basis every day.
After a challenging start in a new country where she didn’t speak the language, this contributor wound up learning about Christian Science. Her initial needs were met, and she’s now had many healings through her practice of Christian Science.
A middle-school friendship led this author to find out about Science and Health. Once she had her own copy and started attending Sunday School, she was on a path which has led to spiritual growth and healing.
“I felt like a new person,” writes this author about how things changed after he found Christian Science. His spiritual practice transformed so much about his life—most importantly, his concept of himself.
Who hasn’t battled with the need to be right on occasion? The author shares the honest self-examination and spiritual growth in humility that lifted her–and promises to lift us—out of this unproductive mindset.
This week, we speak with David Fowler, who shares two incredible experiences—one of his own healing of a drug addiction and overdose, the other of working with a violent offender who’d been incarcerated—and how it’s never too late to “resurrect” and transform your life.
Why prioritize your study of Christian Science? In this author’s own words, “Growing in my understanding of Christian Science brought clarity to other actions, including my job search.”
This author appreciated the ideas she was learning in Christian Science Sunday School, but she wasn’t convinced they all applied to her … until she had a healing that proved otherwise.
In dark moments, when we feel impossibly stuck, is there anything that can move us forward? As this author learned, even the smallest amount of faith can do that.
Facing a dangerous situation at school, this author leaned on what she’d learned about God from attending Christian Science Sunday School. The healing that followed included not just her, but the potential perpetrator, too.
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.
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.
This author felt like she had every right to be mad at her friend. But, she discovered, the anger and hurt couldn’t stick—not in the presence of divine Love.
With a pile-up of work and the end of the semester looming, this college student got a new insight from her prayers that surprised her: Gratitude can be an antidote for feeling overwhelmed.
Facing some chronic discomfort, this teen committed to praying about it. The spiritual uplift she experienced from her prayers for herself turned out to be even more far-reaching than she expected.
Sleeping in the same room as a cat was the last thing this teen wanted to do—especially since he was allergic. Read on to find out how prayer brought an instantaneous—and permanent—healing.
After a friend said something unkind, this teen struggled with hurt—and hatred. But looking to Jesus’ example, she found that getting over a grudge could be a healing experience.
“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.”
Mary Baker Eddy once spoke of there being “Millions of unprejudiced minds—simple seekers for Truth.” When soccer fans geared up for the 2014 World Cup games in Brazil, the local Christian Science churches geared up, too, with prayer and plans, to reach the “seekers” who were coming to town.
This writer increased his commitment to pray for his local church and to support it in other ways. At a discouraging time, the members joined together in prayer, and the church later experienced welcome renewal with increased attendance and engagement.
Read updates about the publication of the Sterling Student Edition of the Bible, a new video to help students learn to mark their books, and the posting of the latest Bible collection on JSH-Online.com. And in case you missed, a link to register for Annual Meeting.
Read about a new “What is Christian Science?” brochure to support your sharing Christian Science with the public. And in case you missed it, see details about Annual Meeting and recent updates to christianscience.com.
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
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.”
Unlock your understanding of the Bible and the Christian Science pastor by exploring new sections in the Journal and Sentinel, and digital collections from our archive.
“Read in the light of Christian Science, the Bible is a road map to health and holiness—to reality as God made and knows it.” We invite you to learn more about this precious book and what the periodicals are doing to help us find even more inspiration in its pages.
Dive deep into Christ Jesus’ transfiguration in this month’s “Exploring the Bible” digital collection from the archive. And in case you missed it, see how to register for this year’s Annual Meeting and learn about a redesign of ChristianScience.com.
ChristianScience.com recently underwent a renovation to simplify its structure and more easily answer the questions of newcomers. Learn more in this week’s update.
Hear how Reading Rooms are using the Bible Lesson to engage newcomers. And learn where to find new posters and flyers for Reading Rooms to promote understanding of the Christian Science pastor.
“The firm embrace of immediate prayer closed the door to the suggestion that an accident had even occurred, as I recognized all power as belonging to God, good, alone.”