Lena Showalter - The Christian Science Sentinel Aug. 7, 2006
As a teenager I’d been to overnight summer camp, went on a five-week school trip to Spain the summer before my senior year of high school, and even successfully made it through my freshman year away at college–all without any homesickness. So I thought a year studying abroad in Valencia, Spain, would be just as easy. And I was right–well, about the first semester at least. (more…)
Flávio Colombini - The Christian Science Sentinel June 5, 2006
São Paulo, Brazil
A few years ago, I was feeling very eager to extend my church activities beyond the church edifice.
After giving Bible classes at a juvenile prison for over a year, I embarked on a second journey of “Church outside church” when I volunteered in a local public hospital. I went there once a week during visiting hours, going from room to room and offering to read passages from the Bible and to pray with the patients. Many patients accepted my offer and gladly listened to me reading psalms and other passages from the Bible, and rejoiced to pray the Lord’s Prayer out loud with me. Some patients just listened to me in awe, as if I were an angel visiting them, and others started happy conversations with me, asking questions and telling me about their faith in God to heal them. (more…)
Suzanne Smedley - The Christian Science Journal June, 2006
When 13-year-old Anna decided to join her local branch church, she wasn’t sure what to expect during the application process. What would she be asked? And what would she say? As it turned out, the whole thing was a lot easier than she thought. Here’s her story . . . (more…)
Steve Henn - The Christian Science Journal March 2006
What do I want to think of when I think of Church? It’s a simple equation, really: Church = joy.
Seriousness doesn’t speak to me-I guess because in my mind, it relates to fear. And that’s what I’ve asked myself a lot with regard to Church: Why on earth do we take Church so seriously? Why do we seem to take these ideas, this Science of Christianity, so seriously? What are we afraid of? Are we afraid if we don’t, if we don’t guard it and protect it, that we’ll lose it? What do we think is going to happen? (more…)
Adedeh Malachi - Christian Science Sentinel, June 26, 2006
I grew up in a Pentecostal church where I was made to believe that our denomination was better than the other denominations around. But after becoming a student of Christian Science in my teens, I realized that we are different from each other only in the extent to which we embrace and practice the teachings of Jesus Christ. Healing as Jesus healed, or gaining dominion over sin, sickness, and death, is all that matters.
God is for us all; no one is ever excluded from the presence or the love of God. As St. Paul said to Christians at Rome: “For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved” (Rom. 10:12, 13). (more…)
By David Hogg - The Christian Science Journal, February 2006
If you’d asked me a few years ago, I probably would have said that Christian Science is just another religion. It didn’t really seem practical to me—more like something you only thought about at church on Sundays. But little by little over the last couple of years I’ve been seeing something different. Christian Science is practical. It’s relevant. It’s fantastic, really!
Once I started really living like a Christian Scientist, putting Christian Science into practice, I began to see that no problem is without a solution. Christian Science isn’t about being labeled, or about do’s and don’ts. I think living as a Christian Scientist means taking everything to God, just having a constant willingness to listen to Him and to see things from His perspective. (more…)
By Kim Korinek - Christian Science Sentinel, March 13, 2006
When I was in middle school, I loved to dance. I danced whenever I got the chance. At one point, my feet were getting uncommonly tired all the time. Soon after that, they were covered with warts.
Using Christian Science for healing was what my mom and I always did. When I was sick, I’d ask her to read to me from Science and Health, and I always got better.
This time, my mom suggested that I was old enough to ask a Christian Science practitioner myself to pray for me to heal the warts. I had never done this before and wasn’t sure what to expect, but I knew that the practitioner had dedicated her life to helping others with prayer. The practitioner I knew was kind and had a knock-your-socks-off joy that was infectious. Still, it took courage for me to call her. Finally I did call, though, and told her I was very unhappy because of warts all over my feet. I asked if she would please help me through prayer to be healed. (more…)
Recently the members of The Christian Science Board of Directors—Tom Black, Walter Jones, Nate Talbot, Mary Trammell, and Vic Westberg—spoke with Sentinel Radio. They shared their individual insights into the healing truth that Mary Baker Eddy discovered. Here is a transcription of what they said, first broadcast June 3 on Sentinel Radio.
Mary Trammell: What is healing? Well, really, it’s the restoring of health to the body, heart, the mind. Or maybe, on a broader basis, the body of one’s finances, one’s economy, one’s community, one’s whole world. And healing is just absolutely central to the theology of Christian Science. We have to have it. Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered and founded Christian Science, wrote this in her book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures: “The theology of Christian Science includes healing the sick” (p. 145). And to me, healing is important because it’s the tangible evidence that God loves us, that God is with us, and that He cares about us.
Jeffrey Hildner talks with Colonel (Ret.) Janet Horton,
Endorser of Christian Science Chaplains for TMC
Reprinted from the May 20006 issue of the Christian Science Journal
Currently, the US Army has 1,400 clergy (most are Christian, about 30 are Jewish, and 15 are muslim), but as Mr. Jonsson reports, the top brass is aiming to recruit nearly 600 more chaplains to serve in the next five years. the following interview, Janet Horton, Endorser of Christian Science Chaplains for The Mother Church (TMC), addressed this urgent need in light of the special healing mission of Christian Science chaplains.
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Lois Carlson
Reprinted from the May 8, 2006, issue of the CS Sentinel.
Primary class instruction in Christian Science teaches how to live under God’s authority, and how to recognize in ourselves a desire to heal and bless others.
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