In the Christian Science Bible Lesson

From The Herald (Monterey, California), September 9, 1989

Safety in listening to God

Whatever else we may do to protect ourselves and our community from crime, can we really go very far without spiritual intuition and divine guidance?
"The Tennessee embryos-custody trial, the abortion argument rekindled by the U.
Breakthroughs in spiritual healing come moment by moment. They grow from new views of God and our own nature as His loved creation.
In a conversation a young mother told us how much her third-grader likes the children's section of the Sentinel.

Threatening little boy? Or child of God?

The human mentality seems full of all sorts of fears and hates. Yet these can yield as we reflect what the Bible calls the Mind that was in Christ Jesus.

True love

Love has to last us through the hard times and the lonely times. This kind of love could only come from God, divine Love.
When we call it "romantic fantasy," it all sounds harmless and at the same time delightfully real.

Trapped by marriage?

The commitments of marriage and family life are sometimes pictured as limitations. But as the writer searched for a truer sense of freedom, she found these commitments full of joy.

Our daily joy

Rejoicing isn't simply something that comes after healing. It nourishes our understanding of the transforming, healing power of God.
[Excerpts from an interview with Professor Harvey Cox of Harvard Divinity School shortly after his appearance on a Soviet television program discussing the future of religion in the Soviet Union.

The spiritual basis of freedom

What fundamentally guarantees liberty? Society or our relation to God?