Looking to be a better healer? Then you’ll want to keep an eye out for articles like this one, appearing periodically in the Sentinel, The Christian Science Journal, and The Herald of Christian Science. Their aim: to correct some of the misconceptions about Christian Science that would keep us from having the results we so desire.

“Why would anyone need church?” someone might ask. I feel I am a living example of an answer to that question.

When I was about eight years old, at the end of a Sunday School class in the church my family attended, the teachers asked the students to pray silently. I closed my eyes to pray and felt an indescribable sense of love and peace, and unity with God. From that time on, I somehow knew I could feel that unspeakable calmness and certainty whenever a group of people wholeheartedly prayed to God. Collective silent prayer can be that powerful!