In your family, or among friends or acquaintances—are you thinking somebody’s not doing the right thing, or making the right life choices? Are you being judged yourself?

After sixteen years of severe verbal and physical abuse in her marriage, the author had finally gotten the courage to pack a few things and flee from home. She saw her progress was blocked until she completely forgave her ex-husband. Christian Science gave her the spiritual understand on how to really forgive as Jesus taught.

This woman and her husband had moved to Switzerland for her new job. They were told that because there were so many people looking for apartments, even if they found one they liked, chances were they would miss out on it. Through prayer, they found the perfect apartment.

One of the fascinating things about accounts of Christian Science healing through prayer in earlier times is that often the person healed had so little communication with a Christian Science practitioner. A brief telegram or message by someone on horseback might have been the only contact.

A spirituality.com chat this past fall featured Michelle Boccanfuso Nanouche, a practitioner and teacher of Christian Science from the United States who is now based in Paris, France. She was responding to questions from site visitors on the subject “Prayer about cancer.”  She explains that cancer doesn't have more power than God's love for His creation. 

Religion is increasingly prominent in the public dialogue. When someone asks about Christian Science, how do you explain it? What are the common misconceptions? How do you respond to them? Phil Davis, Elise Moore, and Jim Bencivenga respond to these questions. 

From her childhood Mary Baker Eddy was interested in spiritual healing. Because she was ill for much of the first half of her life, the issue of God's healing power was never far from her thought as she explored various curative approaches.  After being healed of serious injuries by reading an account of Jesus' healing in the Bible, she devoted the rest of her life to bringing this method of spiritual healing to others.

I believe the best care we can take for our health and peace of mind is prayer that acknowledges our oneness with God. I pray to understand that I am not a personal ego separate from God, but an individual identity flowing from the divine Life like a stream from an inexhaustible fountain.

There isn’t much question that Earth’s climate is warming at a relatively rapid rate. Can the pace or direction of climate change be altered? Yes. Universally beneficial change comes through spiritual transformation. Earth’s physical condition in every respect will improve as we, individually and collectively, encounter the Truth of all truths and yield to Love’s rectifying influence in our lives.

Some doctors say society is drifting into “making people into patients.” This tendency contrasts strikingly with Christian Scientists who are making a genuine effort to identify themselves not as patients but as a Church of healers. Could this be a new model for the public pressured to diagnose itself as sick?