Back to Basics

Our guest this week, Beth Packer, deals with aging-related issues in an unconventional way. She’s not focused on herself—at all. Beth keeps her focus squarely on God. Listen to her conversation with host David Brown and find out the healing effects of this approach.
“The betterment of the human condition . . . is merely an indication that a false sense of being as material and mortal is yielding to spiritual reality.”

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Mary Baker Eddy: Her enduring discovery

Listen to this inspiring collection of articles or download the audio.

From Overcoming grief

What death does not do

We go on gaining moment by moment in the understanding that God is the only real Life.

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Faced with an “impossible” teaching assignment, this author leaned on the Ninth Commandment to help her, knowing, as she puts it, that “God’s law is that we bear witness only to what God knows—to spiritual reality—and this witnessing of what is true heals.”

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Have you been praying with a timeless truth that has brought uplift—and can even inspire healing? We’d love to hear from you. Visit Writer’s Corner to share with us.

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King penguin, South Georgia Island

“Stand upright on thy feet” (Acts 14:10).
What’s one of the best ways to wrap up the year? We think it’s got to be learning about prayer and how to pray more effectively, so we’re revisiting this wonderful podcast with Bob Cochran from our archives. Bob shares his insights about prayer—what it means to pray and how to stick with it.

How are we measuring time?

Can we really think differently about time? In this author’s own words, “We have the opportunity to change, step by step, the way we measure our activities, tasks, and achievement of goals—from the time they take to the good accomplished.”

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These books healed me

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series on how the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy heal.

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A spiritual perspective on politics

We've gathered a variety of guests for this series, each with wonderful spiritual insights and proof that these spiritual ideas are effective—even for something that looms large, like politics.

From Pregnancy and childbirth

For expectant mothers

The more fully we accept the spiritual nature of birth, the more effortlessly we can demonstrate that nothing has occurred from which one needs to recover.

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From Faculties indestructible

MAN'S DIVINE HERITAGE

Man's divine heritage as the son of God is not a promise, but is the present fact; it is one's true state of being.

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Have you been praying with a timeless truth that has brought uplift—and can even inspire healing? We’d love to hear from you. Visit Writer’s Corner to share with us.

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As we think about New Year’s resolutions, consider this: “The best thing to bring about whatever changes we seem to need is the spiritual improvement that enables us to see our true, timeless selfhood—to see ourselves as God made and maintains us.”

The Christmas star

Amid the other stars it shines,
establishing the way
for every one of us to find
the light of perfect day ...
How a classic Christmas carol inspired new spiritual insights.
Exploring what Christmas is really about, this author writes, “In this season of celebration, beyond simply commemorating a historical event, we can make a commitment to better emulating Christ Jesus.”

You, too

Jesus, “moved with compassion”
fed and healed and blessedand as those disciples 
who have gone before 
you too
child-like in your hope, seek
to lay the foundation
of Christly ...

Love’s transparency

From deep within I hope
   for You, 
O Spirit, rest on me. 
A stillness, an abiding peace, 
Unfolding …