Have you ever wondered about the future of Christian Science?
I address some of the concerns people have about where Christian Science is headed in an article published in the Christian Science Sentinel, June 23, 2025, titled, “Christian Science is here to stay.”
Thank you very much for this article, Evan – I read it yesterday and it is so good, and essential for us to
understand and acknowledge. I recommend it to
everyone. Yes, we can know that Christian Science cannot fade out and be blotted out by materialism –
it is, as Evan explains, :Here to stay”. Evan says it
all.
Great article. What’s True is always True. Many thanks Evan.
A very important, historically accurate and spiritually instructive article. Thank you very much, Evan, for writing and sharing it. Healing will continue unabated because God and His omnipotent Love continues. We have so much to be grateful for.
Thank you for this Evan.
Christian Science is the law of God. Nothing can change that.
The world’s misperception of Christian Science and maybe some church members cannot alter that fact.
Thank you for your article Evan. Very much needed
I really appreciate this post Evan – because It reminds me that although our society currently might be blinded by materialsm it is a phase like all others….and the age of enlightenment comes after darkness….I really love the LONG TERM perspective you share here on the eternal revelation of MBE’s teachings!
Oh, Yes, Thank You, Evan,
God, reflected by good, Truth , Life and Love, ever has been and ever will be, here and everywhere.
Thank God!
Thank you, Evan !! I love this article.! Your articles are always so helpful.. I already recommended it to many !!
Thank you Evan for being the Michael Jordan of spiritual warfare!
🙂
Much needed and clear statements about Christian Science Evan…I read it the other day and felt its authoritative truth is much needed. So thank you. Even a little spiritual truth seems to stay with us , waiting for the next revealing moment. Divine Science and its revelation to man is just unstoppable .Let’s share the leaven wherever whenever and with whom ever we can❣️
Thank you Evan. I read it yesterday . Many wonderful ideas to embrace and practice. As there are in your SV every day.
There is no panic in Love, no matter earlier days Cs or today in 2025. thank you Evan for
Being a keeper and soldier of the Spirit.
Blessings to all “ seekers of Truth “
Yessssssssssss!!!!
Straight out from Truth and Love,
our Wonderful (true) Mind!
Thank You, and for your clear reflection: Evan!
Following on from Evan’s observation of some of the early Greek belief systems,this is just like the belief in a “flat” earth in more recent times. Based on what presents to the material senses, humanity now knows not to rely on these same physical senses for truth. However, just as the once called “Flat Earth Society” continued to exist long after humanity had more generally accepted the truth about the earth, the solar system and our relationship to these, so there will continue to be those who insist that “Christian Science is shrinking…”. This is almost a direct echo of Mrs Eddy’s own sttement: “…the higher Truth lifts her voice, the louder will error scream, until its inarticulate sound is forever silenced in oblivion.” (S&H 97:22).
Although Evan has touched on the difference between “belief systems” and “eternal laws” and there is no start date for the latter, yet we discover them step-by-step. So this year marks 150years since the first publication of the Christian Science textbook which recorded these eternal laws in applicable form for humanity today.
Thank you for the timely reminder, Evan
Excellent article, Evan. Thank you.
Ditto!! Thank you, Evan. You always state the truth so clearly and simply.
Thank you Evan for an excellent article. The world would appear to be steeped in materialism…which can feel deeply unsettling and superficial – as with all things mortal/carnal/temporal. Also ever-changing and cyclical. I don’t necessarily see church closings as a sign that religion is dead. I see various religions alive and seemingly well with an online presence on Instagram, Facebook and YouTube. There is definitely a wonderful sense of community here on SV. And Christian Science YouTube lectures reach thousands of people 24/7, compared to possibly a brick and mortar setting. The power of the Christ (an awareness of our inseparability from God) will always find a way to reach hungering hearts.
The spiritual structure of the true and living church of
Christ, Scientist, is Truth and Love, which can never fade, be made ineffective, be distorted or be destroyed. The only things that can
fade etc. and be destroyed are the material, ignorant and false beliefs which have no power to enter into the true mind of man which is Christlike. The mesmeric beliefs of so-called mortal man are being destroyed by the Christ, Truth all the time,, and as we stick together with the Truth and the Love, and live it, we are helping to waken man from the darkness of materialism to the light of spiritual understanding. And the light is growing, and will grow brighter and brighter :unto the perfect day”. Ignorant beliefs have not a leg to stand on – they have no cause, no law, no creator, no power – they are just the nothingness of nothing. “All is
infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is
All-in-all.” for ever and ever. (Scientific Statement of Being from Science & Health by MBE)
Dear Evan,
Thank you for your clear message about the eternality of Christian Science. Since youth I have observed the shrinking number of churchgoers and closures of churches and pondered the meaning. I used to worry about it and try to figure out what was wrong and how I could help “fix” it, which is not a very scientific approach. Now I see that my job is to do my daily work as a student of Christian Science and open my thought to God’s disposal of events. Mrs. Eddy’s commentary on the “value and peril” of material organization on page 45 of “Retrospection and Introspection” has given me much food for thought.
Thank you for this wonderful Spiritview, Evan, and the many comments❣️
“The structure of Truth and Love…..,,” declining – ending?!
Impossible!! It may take on new ways of expression.
I’m holding to Truth and Love’s infinite light opening
boundless thought to what reaches humanity today.
My life has been so filled with evidence of my oneness with the dear Father’s omnipresent, omnipotent care –
Nothing can stop the flow of good/God to the receptive heart.
Such upward, soaring thoughts from Mind. All we need to do is see Truth revealed through the lens of Soul and matter becomes irrelevant when we are healing. Love the article Evan!
Fantastic! Spot on……so needed
Thank you, Evan, but I wish you had addressed the first full paragraph on page 367 of Mary Baker Eddy The Years of Authority by Robert Peel and, in particular, the last sentence of that paragraph.
Hi Mark,
The key word in that paragraph is “temporary.” That’s for a finite period of time with an ending point. Christian Science is here to stay! God’s laws are always present for anyone to practice at any time. Right from divine Mind! Thankfully.
Thank you very very much for your wonderfully inspiring and comforting and healing article, dear Evan!
It is infinitely helpful, as I do hear sometimes from a good Christian Scientist, that churches and members deminish. This moment the thought came that GOD, Spirit is quality and quantity. That means for me, that God is the quality and quantities of His church(es) and of His workers in His infinite whineyard of Spirit for healing the nations
Am endless grateful for your SpiritView Blog so relevant to today’s situations needing healing, combined with the diversely inspired and inspiring commentations! ❤️
Thank you so much, Evan, as always! So helpful in meeting the need.