One of this week’s featured pieces really gave us pause. “Is it more important to be right or to do right?” It raises the bar on what it means to truly love others. It challenges us to choose actions rooted in expansive, courageous love, rather than the false comfort of being “correct.” In these difficult times—and really at any time—broadening and deepening our love for others is no small task. It calls on all of us to live our true, spiritual nature in our efforts to practice healing and to let humility melt defensiveness.
March 23, 2026
Wondering how to follow the biblical directive to love your neighbor? This author’s experience not only demonstrates the “how,” but it also offers a higher standard for how we relate to others—especially when we feel wronged.
How can we think about safety from a spiritual perspective? This week’s guests, Nancy Mullen and Nancy Harrison, share experiences of how they prayed during dangerous situations—and how they found safety not just for themselves but for others, too.
When world events feel overwhelming and we’re not sure we can pray, there is a starting point that helps our prayers take flight.
From the editors
If our practice of Christian Science seems momentarily plagued by doubts, we can face them the way this author did. She said “yes to exploring the fullness and joy of God’s love for me.”
Wondering how to follow the biblical directive to love your neighbor? This author’s experience not only demonstrates the “how,” but it also offers a higher standard for how we relate to others—especially when we feel wronged.
How can we think about safety from a spiritual perspective? This week’s guests, Nancy Mullen and Nancy Harrison, share experiences of how they prayed during dangerous situations—and how they found safety not just for themselves but for others, too.
From the editors
In an era in which “self love” has often come to mean self-indulgence, the Editor considers what it truly means to love ourselves as the loved of God, and how this is central to obeying Jesus’ other commands to love God and our neighbor.
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.”
When world events feel overwhelming and we’re not sure we can pray, there is a starting point that helps our prayers take flight.
When we share a testimony of healing, it doesn’t bless just us. It becomes part of a virtuous cycle, leading to healings for others, too—as this church member found.
A new “Exploring the Bible” article collection has been posted online, on the theme of prophecy. And in case you missed it, learn about The Christian Science Monitor’s coverage of the war in Iran, and summer internships in Boston.
“I went about my tasks convinced of my oneness with my divine Father-Mother. On the third day, the pain was completely gone and I was walking normally.”
“I didn’t want to fall into the trap of feeling that I was personally responsible for praying ‘hard enough’ to make healing happen, as if I needed to—or could—make the truth more true. The truth is always true.”
“I ceased looking for causes of my discomfort in the interactions or judgments of people. I acknowledged that God is the only cause and that divine Principle, not human personality, governs all.”
To the prayerful consciousness, divine reality is distinct and unmistakable.
Thank you for this reminder of the importance of our duty to defend against “self-talk” or aggressive suggestions and to stay alert and not forget our healings.
