In the Christian Science Bible Lesson

Second Thought

"We've grown into a society that relies on SAT scores, Nielsen ratings, flow charts and polls, ... at the expense of the attention once paid to the human capacity for awe, for wonder, for gratitude, for worship—that capacity out of which [we] find God."

Our great spiritual adventure

The word adventure may be overused in an era always hungry for new experience. Yet there is a genuine adventure that brings not simply new experience but the newness of life in God's care.
About our cover— If people have been losing faith, it has been a loss of faith in a material view of God and man. But losing that faith is what often clears the way for a new, more spiritual faith—an understanding of the only living and true God, as the Bible puts it.

Dismissing fear

Each of the lessons we learn about God's healing power is important, and we can use each one right away.
When it seems as though things are changing too much, it's time to find out more about God's changeless love for us.

Pray about homework?

Prayer isn't a substitute for studying, but prayer can put studying in new light.

"For goodness' sake"

Human life seems to take much of its shape from our experiences. But there is a more fundamental force at work, the goodness of God, which can re-form and transform experience.
The rights and needs of the child are a rallying point for strong social and political action. How does prayer help a family care for those rights?
About our cover—When we begin to accept God as the Father and Mother of every spiritual individuality, we arrive at new estimates of our children's strength and dominion—and of our own.

The water bike adventure

For children The water bike adventure
It's natural to care deeply about community.

Destroy those monsters

20 Destroy those monsters Prayer that results in Christ-healing is not so much a request as it is an openness to power of God and to what He is showing us of our pure spirituality.