Why do we care about Jesus? Many of the physical side effects of the spiritual precepts he taught are great, but they’re really not the point. It’s the spiritual wake-up call he provided that really counts—the call to love spiritually and unconditionally, even when the going gets tough.

Disease is actually a lie about the state of health that is normal to the real individuality of everyone. When we realize this, the disease often disappears instantaneously. That’s how we can nip disease in the bud.

Christianly scientific prayer doesn’t start with the problem we’re facing. It starts with God and looks out from the pinnacle of perfect Life and perfect Love. This heals.

Jesus’ ultimate example—his resurrection—shows that death isn’t the reality it appears to be. It can inspire every one of us to renew our intrinsic right to be healers—to demonstrate the true example and legacy of our Master Teacher.

In today’s world we see a wide range of the Eve mentality portrayed, with both men and women eating of the fruit of limitation and mortality and so experiencing defeat. But whatever our sex, we can overcome evil and limitation by understanding the womanhood God created.

In Christian Science, Christ consciousness isn’t some mystical interior state of enlightenment. It’s an active power that can heal and transform the world.

Captured and held for over a month by guerillas during the Vietnam War, a reporter proves that terror can be overcome and that man isn’t subject to a murderous Cain-complex.

Love constitutes every aspect of our being. It is our identity. Our experience. Our very Soul. Love is the substance of what we are. Realizing this has transformational effects.

Recently, I have had many opportunities to pray about relationships. Since moving to South Korea to teach English for a year, I’ve had to face the challenges of maintaining consistent contact with those I love back home, making new friendships here, and even addressing relationships in a larger context, including the shaky relations between North and South Korea.

Christian Science healing has a simple, fundamental starting point: perfect God and perfect man. Sticking to that base is fundamental too. And a third fundamental is love.