Editorials

Our love and mankind's future

This editorial begins on a historic morning for Christian Scientists—the morning of December 8, 1984—the day of the first satellite videoconference for Christian Scientists all over the world.

Living for mankind

Sooner or later, those who would live for mankind learn that deeply Christian prayer is the best friend of unselfish living.

Dragon slaying

Children's books of the past were full of princes who grew up to journey into a far land and slay fire-breathing dragons.

Holy moments

Many individuals, when they're seeking God, know those holy moments—moments when they feel the touch of the Christ.
One Sunday afternoon a commentator on television was talking about what he felt was essential in order for a Christian church to be true to God's Word.

Caring: a privilege from God

A daughter was thinking about her mother.
Television brings the world's hunger and its many other problems to our own dinner table.
Someone lost on a starless night or in a blinding blizzard still can get his bearings from a compass.
Each of us has wonderful talents bestowed by God.
Much of human life seems to be predicated upon probabilities.

Waking up to priorities

Late one morning, as my wife and I were about to check out of a hotel room in New York, it looked as if there were just too many things to do at once and too little time in which to do them.

Forward to square one

When plans fall through and hopes are crushed, it has become popular to declare with a stoic shrug, "Oh, well, back to square one!" But having to start over need not force us to play at life as though it were a chancy game.