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After the storm

Barrie Paulson

As a winter storm raged outside, this college student battled her own storm of feeling unworthy, unloved, and sick. But a single call to a Christian Science practitioner stopped the internal storm and allowed the light of healing to break through.

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A search for home brought me to Christian Science

Shawn McCrocklin

Back in the spring of 2001, I was interested in buying a fixer-upper in a historic neighborhood in a midwestern city.

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Can ants destroy a home?

Russell Whittaker

Big black carpenter ants were on the walls in one corner of our dining room.

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Finding my way

Hilary Harper-Wilcoxen

I came to know God as my traveling companion, my best friend, and my reliable guide.

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To be a healer instead of a worrier: How I’m praying for world leaders

Terese Reiter Messman

If you’re yearning to pray for leaders worldwide, says this author, you can start by praying to better understand that leaders—and all citizens—are created spiritually by a completely good creator. And “this spiritual view guides us to see that the true nature of all government is upheld by the benevolent government of God.”

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Keeping God as the head of the household

Libby Jones

I would reply, “Don’t be overwhelmed for me.” This was a fun quip, but it has a deeper, spiritual meaning.

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‘Citizens … of the household of God’

Madeline Cassidy

All people actually dwell in the realm of Spirit, where no one can be shut out or deprived of any good.

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What does it mean to be a real man?

John Biggs

When it came to achievements on the playing field or sexual conquests, this author just wasn’t measuring up—and that caused him to doubt himself both as a person and a man. A turning point came when he began reevaluating his definition of what it means to be a man and choosing a new, spiritual sense of manhood as his model.