How I Found Christian Science

For years as a child I had attended the Church of England, and had been to classes and confirmed.
When I was eight years old, our next-door neighbor came to our home to tell my mother, my younger brother, and me that our father had just died on the golf course.

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Anthology of classic articles

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From Living the Lord's Prayer

'OUR FATHER ...'

The Lord's Prayer sparks the recognition that divine Love is always with us.

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When I was born, the doctor told my mother that I wouldn’t live to age five unless an operation was performed.

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A journey illumined by love

During turbulent years in Indonesia in the 1960s, when I was a teenager, Christian Science was first introduced to me by a friend from a swimming club who attended Christian Science Sunday School.
I started smoking at the tender age of 16.

Made new

I was raised in a Christian home, but one that did not take religion very seriously.

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Mary Baker Eddy: Her enduring discovery

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Changing your world

Listen to this Sentinel Watch series—and discover how your prayers can make a difference in the world.

From Church

The demand for church

I like to think of each church that grows up in a community as that community's answered prayer for the presence of the saving Christ—the message of God's love for humanity.

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From Church

The demand for church

I like to think of each church that grows up in a community as that community's answered prayer for the presence of the saving Christ—the message of God's love for humanity.

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‘No other way to live’

In the late 1970s, the newspaper my husband subscribed to went out of business, and he decided to get a subscription to The Christian Science Monitor.
In the more mature years of my life, I’ve been blessed by finding Christian Science.
Thirty-seven years ago the doctors gave me no hope that I would survive.
The road turned slightly and sloped down toward a little babbling stream.
In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy asks, “What are the motives for prayer?

My church homecoming

Although my parents weren’t particularly religious, our family attended a Protestant church, and I remember literally being dragged to Sunday School as a young child.