Category: Christian Science

Falling ants and the disappearing sliver

September 21, 2007 | 7 comments

I love the new office space I moved into last spring. All conditions proved ideal the first few months, except for one. There were ants. Not too many ants, but enough to get me bothered. They would fall from the

Watch the mental company you keep

September 19, 2007 | 22 comments

A rule we learn in Christian Science for preserving health and well being is to keep thinking free of external negative influence. If we are not alert, the influences we feel around us in the atmosphere of thought, we might

The second death

August 12, 2007 | 3 comments

A number of people asked me this week about the second death mentioned in Revelation 11:2. The verse states: “He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be

God so loved the world

July 31, 2007 | 14 comments

I’ve often puzzled over the meaning of this Bible verse: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” John 3:16 I believe a

Is life without matter conceivable?

July 29, 2007 | 11 comments

I’ve witnessed students of Christian Science wrestle with the unreality of matter, wondering how life could be possible without the atomic stuff. They try to envision existence without things, without cars, without physical bodies, without houses, and wonder, “What’s left?”