This author explores why Jesus said to “ask” for healing in his name and why it isn’t outdated to do so today.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.
Here’s an encouraging message: “As we dig into the theology of Jesus explained in Christian Science, we find we’re not defined by material beliefs.” That includes sensuality.
“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.
This week, listen in on a Q&A as guest Emma Jelley asks and guest Janet Clements answers some common questions about practicing Christian Science. Hear how they approach these questions, and how they’ve experienced healing by digging deeper.
A common misconception about Christian Science is that prayer, or “knowing the truth,” involves the psychological strategy of suppressing or repressing certain thoughts. What’s really at the heart of Christian Science practice?
When Elisabeth Brinton walked away from her high-powered career, it didn’t exactly go as she’d thought it would. But as a Christian Scientist, she knew that gaining more spiritual understanding would change things for the better. And it did. In big ways.
Young people are looking for a Christianity that is centered on Jesus’ teachings and healing works. Let’s not shy away from sharing what the Bible has meant to us.
It’s worth exploring the concept that we don’t “earn” our safety. Our spiritual identity, wholeness, and well-being are intact and freely given to us by God.
Listening to and obeying God, divine Love, leads us to find resolutions to health issues and solutions to other problems. As our thought adjusts and we see a higher view of ourselves as spiritual, not material, we “awake” to these inspired solutions.
This writer found that self-righteousness is actually self-defeating. He’s learned that as we understand that we all, in reality, reflect one divine Mind, we are enabled to genuinely “seek the highest human expression of God’s law” of good in any situation.
After dealing with recurring back pain, our guest, Al Belote, gleaned something new spiritually that ended the problem once and for all. Join us for the first episode of our new series, “My favorite healing,” to hear all about it.
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.
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 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.
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.
Sometimes, simple concepts, illumined, bring immeasurable progress. As this writer puts it, “A deeper, spiritual understanding of redemption assured me that God eternally endows His creation, including me, with every divine quality.”
All we really need is Love. This week, we speak with John Paxton Qualtrough about the practical, healing effects of Love, God, and how divine Love propels us and others forward when it is understood and we love others unselfishly.
If we discern that thoughts coming to us are not from God, we can not only mentally say a vigorous, “No,” but know spiritual facts, such as God is always with us—even when in a trying circumstance.
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.
This week, we hear from three guests. Kevin Ness shares how Christian Science enriched his college experience—both in the classroom and out. And, we hear from Lois Marquardt and Tom McElroy, who are members of the Board of Education, about how another kind of education—Christian Science class instruction—supports our spiritual growth.
Wondering how Christian Science fits into your life? This week's guest, William Whittenbury, shares how studying Christian Science—and making it his own as a young adult—actually propelled his spiritual growth and supported his studies in college and grad school.
After his life comes crashing down, an unexpected comment gets the author thinking more deeply about what truly comforts, and leads him back to Christian Science.
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!
At first, this grad student was having fun hooking up. Others were doing it—why not her? But when things didn’t go as planned, it was her practice of Christian Science that brought new light—and healing—to her perspective on casual relationships.
A college athlete shares how her practice of Christian Science helped her when she started a new sport. Turns out, it wasn’t just her relationship with God that improved, but also her performance.
If you’re working a summer job—or any job—that seems demanding, you’ll want to read this teen’s article about the spiritual insight that healed him of fatigue and changed his whole summer.
“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.”
The Concord team just released the Manual of The Mother Church 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.
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.
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.
Explore how AI is reshaping education, parents are mobilizing to get screens out of the classroom, and kids are finding new ways to get the most out of their school experience.
Loving and valuing Sunday School, as both pupil and teacher, is embedded in the heart of this author. She writes that since, in reality, we’re all the children of God, it’s natural to want to attend or teach Sunday School.
What’s the connection between participating in church and experiencing healing? This writer shares what she’s learned and gained from serving in church.
A Christian Science summit for college students is coming to Principia College in October. And in case you missed it, three teen-themed pamphlets were recently published—available in Reading Rooms and via the Online Shop.
“I felt completely embraced by God’s love, and its manifestation was evident in the loving care provided by the practitioner and the Christian Science nurses, as daily progress toward healing became evident.”
“I am grateful to God for the protection of all involved in this situation and for Christian Science, which gives us the tools to help in any emergency.”
“We are so blessed that Christian Science teaches how to apply divine law in daily life—how to demonstrate full freedom from physical limits and conditions.”
“I felt that the true healing was in gaining a deeper understanding of our son’s unshakable spiritual nature as well as a stronger trust in God’s guidance of my expression of parenthood.”