Testimonies of Healing

The healings we publish are verified by people who can vouch for the testifier or who know of the healing. Examples of Christian healing from individuals and families around the world have been published in the Christian Science periodicals for well over a century.

The most recently-published testimonies are at the top.

Testimony of Healing

Hearing restored

Laura Remmerde

One day, as I was out for a walk, I began to pray about my God-given faculties.
Testimony of Healing

Pulled muscle healed

Rick Carlson

What could be better than awakening to what God is and to what this means for our health and harmony as God’s children!

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A spiritual perspective on politics

We've gathered a variety of guests for this series, each with wonderful spiritual insights and proof that these spiritual ideas are effective—even for something that looms large, like politics.

From Pregnancy and childbirth

For expectant mothers

The more fully we accept the spiritual nature of birth, the more effortlessly we can demonstrate that nothing has occurred from which one needs to recover.

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Testimony of Healing

Child’s injured hand restored

Catherine Byers

In the minutes it took to walk home, my son’s hand was completely healed. 

Share your healing experience

Have you had a healing? Sharing it may bring hope to or even heal others. Visit Writer’s Corner to get started.

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Testimony of Healing

Recurring back pain gone

Susan Tish

With this new conviction of my natural spiritual poise, I rejected the notion of that painful condition as part of me. Freedom and strength settled over me.
Testimony of Healing

Back injury healed

Elizabeth Beall

Healing is a natural outcome of practicing unselfed love. This experience inspired me to continue praying for the world.
Testimony of Healing

A life transformed

Grace Ngoindai Ajayi

Because of this healing, every statement in Science and Health was so real to me.

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Shared reflections

Listen to this inspiring collection of articles or download the audio.

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Anthology of classic articles

Listen to this inspiring collection of articles.

From Free from Contagion

Bringing our prayers to the threat of contagion

Prayer can lift us out of the swirl of fear, and it can be a calming, healing influence in our communities as well.

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From Free from Contagion

Bringing our prayers to the threat of contagion

Prayer can lift us out of the swirl of fear, and it can be a calming, healing influence in our communities as well.

View other Collections →

Share your healing experience

Have you had a healing? Sharing it may bring hope to or even heal others. Visit Writer’s Corner to get started.

Write for JSH

Testimony of Healing

Quick healing of sprained ankle

Jackie Cvar

My houseguest was amazed when I walked into the living room without even a limp. He said, “Wow! Now I know why you are a Christian Scientist. I’ve never seen anything like that.”
Testimony of Healing

Overcoming hatred brings physical freedom

William Ward

I resolved to do better and forgave the officer. The illness soon disappeared.
Testimony of Healing

Burned hand quickly healed

Shirley Schmidt

One day, I had prepared the evening meal and was removing a casserole from the oven, using only one oven pad.
Testimony of Healing

Recovery from effects of physical trauma

Joann Smedley

My overarching feeling during this experience was gratitude—for the availability of the Christian Science nursing facility, for the practical and loving nursing care I received from the Christian Science nurses, for my family’s care, and for the Christian Science practitioner’s patience and faithful prayer. 
Testimony of Healing

Pain-free mobility restored

Emily Mayer Kendrick

Early in my marriage and after I became a mother, I suffered debilitating back issues for a few weeks at a time.
Testimony of Healing

Runner freed from pain

Claire McArthur

It was just so clear to me that the pain wasn’t real and that I needed to guard my thinking rather than look for either a material cause or a material remedy. That was the end of the pain.