In the Christian Science Bible Lesson

GOD WAS THERE

T.B.

Once when I was home alone, lugging a heavy box down to the basement, I tripped at the last step and went sprawling.

By Tom Black

Even if the most trusted family and friends forsake us, spiritual solutions hold out the promise of lasting companionship and joy.

Mary Baker Eddy

Thoughts on the season from the founder of the Sentinel.

Flávio Colombini

I took these photos at gift-giving time at a family gathering last Christmas in our home in Brazil.

with contributions from Joy Armitage Trelawney, Sarah Nelson, Roderick Nordell, Michael Henderson, Wambui Wamunyu

People from America to Zimbabwe share their Christmas illuminations.

By Bill Moody

Even some 2,004 years after the birth of Jesus, God's angels are still pointing us to the transforming power of His peace and love.

By Shelly Richardson

You can always pray with assurance when you get stuck, as this writer found out—no matter how hopeless things look.

By Madora Kibbe

It was a Christmas that was, in Mary Baker Eddy's words, "a feast of Soul and a famine of sense."

By Brian Kissock

This season, people away from home, possibly in harm's way, deserve our prayers for their safety.

By Joni Overton-Jung

There were no holiday trappings or traditions that day—just a profound awareness of holiness engulfing the world.

An adaptation of a live telling of the Christmas story.

Rosalie E. Dunbar

As the Palestinian people look toward elections in January, they and the world are facing new opportunities for peace in the Middle East.