Category: Christian Science

Refuse to be a medium for disease

December 18, 2023 | 43 comments

Mary Baker Eddy writes, “Man thinks he is a medium of disease; that when he is sick, disease controls his body to whatever manifestation we see” (Christian Healing, p. 6). In spiritual truth, man is never a medium for disease.

Master evil beliefs

December 15, 2023 | 26 comments

Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer of Christian Science, understood the relationship between belief and disease. When explaining how different phenomena appear to the physical senses, she wrote, “When I learned how mind produces disease on the body, I learned how

Questioning God’s existence

November 28, 2023 | 22 comments

A doubting teenager was questioning her mother’s faith in God. “How can you say there is a God when so many bad things happen in the world?” She exclaimed. The mother replied, “God is what gives me hope that there

Change course when helpful

November 16, 2023 | 24 comments

This statement by Mary Baker Eddy is heartening: “If you believe in and practice wrong knowingly, you can at once change your course and do right” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 253). If we feel stuck

Understanding the unreality of evil

November 10, 2023 | 51 comments

A commenter on this blog recently asked, “How can a student of Christian Science say evil is unreal when so many atrocities are happening around the world?” It is true. One of the basic teachings of Christian Science is the