In the Christian Science Bible Lesson

Duncan Martin unfolds his easel—and his thoughts—on a craggy Maine beach, as he prepares to translate the spirituality of landscape onto canvas.

A riff on joy

Joy—we all want it. The key to getting it realizing it's a spiritual quality, not a thing.

Swimming with the jellyfish ... and God

ONE day I went to the beach with my family.
"Gleaning" or "stealing"? Would a harvest by either name taste as good? This woman let her Sunday School students test her ethics.

Compassion on the Green Line

One woman dared to break the circumference of discomfort to help an unconscious subway rider.
Realizing that God is the one Mind and intelligence is the kind of spiritual understanding that helped bring the author's friend Lola out of a mental institution.
Perhaps the real choice is not between pursuing every promise of a cure and protecting every embryo.

Mental decline is surmountable

As the light of God shines on each of us, it shows that gaps in consciousness like memory loss and Alzheimer's disease are not insurmountable.
A Sentinel staff editor explains how the key to her healing, after decades of seasonal allergies, was learning not to react—to find a spiritual stillness that would bring grace to everyday events.

Under pressure? Pray!

In double overtime between the underdog and the top-seeded soccer team—it all came down to a shootout. Abby prayed, stepped up to take the last kick, and ...
Joy, freedom, dexterity, agility, and balance are all spiritual and ageless.
She was a klutz, always the last pick in choosing up teams. But facing a brutal physical fitness test, spiritual fitness was what she really needed.