A Christian Science Perspective

When Mary Baker Eddy founded The Christian Science Monitor in 1908, she gave the directive to publish one article on Christian Science every day. Each article delivers a response to a topical issue in the news from a Christian Science perspective. These articles inspire readers to look through a spiritual lens when responding to the news and focus their supportive prayers toward an issue facing the global community. For more articles than the ones listed below, visit the Christian Science perspective section on csmonitor.com.

Fresh insights on safety and freedom from fear while traveling on the London underground a week after the terrorist attacks there in 2005.

It can be helpful to conceive of sleep as not simply an unconscious state of mind – to see that it can be more than just a relief from exhaustion or escape from tension and trouble.

It is divine Love endlessly expressing itself as love in a thousand practical ways that has problem-solving control over the whole scene.

Divine Love has given them this voice for a purpose, and as they listen for that purpose, their way will be clear.

I’d never thought about it before, but this beatitude of Christ Jesus included all of the children of God as “peacemakers” – not “troublemakers”!

Each of us is a unique expression of God, showing Him forth as rays of light show the sun.

The kite analogy helps me understand that even though we don’t see the power of God, it is evident in the effects for good that it produces in our lives.

Mental walls – prejudice, fear, hate, or disdain – also separate people.

The first Mother’s Day after her mother had passed on, this author found mothering comfort in an unlikely setting – from a male teenage clerk in a convenience store.

News of the trial of Anders Behring Breivik a year after the killings in Norway brings to mind an example of a father's forgiveness after his daughter was killed by a bombing in Northern Ireland.