Category: Christian Science

The bane of selfishness

November 14, 2012 | 8 comments

Are there times when your prayers are not answered and you wonder why? Perhaps there is an element of selfishness that needs to be eliminated. Ponder the depths of this message from Mary Baker Eddy: “Selfishness does not appear in the

Etch the right sketch

June 4, 2012 | 6 comments

Have you ever played with an Etch-A-Sketch®?  I did when I was a kid. Image from How Stuff Works It was very liberating for bumbling, yet aspiring artists, because whenever a mistake was made, one could shake the apparatus, erase the

An active practice

April 19, 2012 | 5 comments

Some potential full-time practitioners of Christian Science have feared going into the practice because no patients or few patients were calling them for treatment. In error, they let mortal mind calculate their financial prospects accordingly, and conclude that they cannot

"Beating the odds" on the Titanic

April 12, 2012 | 9 comments

Here’s a thought-provoking article printed in the New York Times last week, written by an author whose grandfather was a Christian Science practitioner and also a survivor of the Titanic. “As hundreds of men perished…”