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Weekly updates: May 18, 2026 

Learn about a rotation in office on the Board of Trustees, and about how to tune in to Annual Meeting, which this year centers on the theme, “Ye are the light of the world. Let your light so shine....” - Matthew 5:14, 16
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“His arm encircles me, and mine, and all” 

Jeff Patzlaff

A man finds these words, “His [God’s] arm encircles me,” from a poem by Mary Baker Eddy, inscribed on a D-Day memorial headstone in Normandy, France—and he discovers that the spiritual signification of those words heals the grieving heart. 
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No more ruminating 

Pamela Savage

When the writer is unable to sleep peacefully through the nights and begins ruminating over a number of pressing issues, prayer brings her a clearer sense of her oneness with God—and peace of mind. 
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Freedom from past experiences 

Trevor Yates

Can we break free from the past? Can it define or scar us? The Bible story of three Hebrew men who escaped a hot furnace, unharmed and untouched, serves as a powerful example that we can live “unencumbered by past experiences.” 
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“It is good for us to be here” 

Anna Carlson Reynolds

Praying to support her church’s service, this author heard a message from God that shed new light on what a visitor might find inside: “The church service itself is the feast that hungering hearts have been invited to by their Father-Mother God, and we can know that they will leave grateful for the truths they’ve received during the service.”
TeenConnect: Your Healings

When I read Science and Health, I knew my search was over 

Lee Ann Schlatter

Even though her dad was a Christian Scientist, it wasn’t until this college student needed answers to life’s big questions that the message came to pick up Science and Health for herself.
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Enoch’s translation 

Find out about one man’s “walk with God”—and his spiritual reward.
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Weekly updates: May 11, 2026 

Unlock your understanding of the Bible and the Christian Science pastor by exploring new sections in the Journal and Sentinel, and digital collections from our archive.
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Held in Spirit, not “in irons” 

Barb Goodspeed Grant

When we feel stuck, thwarted, constrained—what sailors call “in irons”—it’s freeing to know that for any problem we’re facing, there’s always a spiritual solution. Christian Science reveals what it is.
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I realized that regret could be healed 

Brewster Moseley

No matter what our regrets, or how intense they may seem, this author’s life proves that they can always be healed.
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Our thoughts of God can lift us up! 

Robert Witney

“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.”
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Embracing the one, true Parent 

Liesl Ehmke

As we near Mother’s Day in some countries including the United States and Australia, this mother shares that recognizing God as the Father and Mother of each of us puts the parent-child relationship on the right basis every day.