It's Saturday morning, and once again the thick metal door of the soundproof booth shuts tight behind me. Settling into the swivel chair, I crack open the book I'll be reading for the next two hours and remind myself, Don't hurry. It took about a year of volunteering at Recording for the Blind … [Read more...]
Feeling embattled? Time for a higher view
The day is just getting started, and already we feel as if we’re doing battle. On one side, there’s the normal, calm life we all want to live, and on the other the disturbance and negative sense of life that seem to take many different forms as the pandemic drags on. We’re not alone if we feel … [Read more...]
Health anxiety: help for the well but worried
Internet sites and online message boards are buzzing with people who despairingly refuse to believe they are well even though a physician has given them a clean bill of health. There’s Jimmy, for example, who confessed: “I have no reason to believe I have a particular ailment, and against all reason … [Read more...]
The call for rebellion – and revelation
The specific statements made by Jesus throughout his ministry have become timeless instruction for those who want to practice Christian healing today. There’s also much to learn about Christian healing from the spirit of his work—not just what he said, but from the manner in which he spoke and … [Read more...]
The search for better health care
The other day I was browsing through an issue of Time Magazine from 30-years ago. It took me back to a year when cutting-edge products such as electric typewriters and telephone answering machines were “sure-fire, can’t-miss” gifts for Christmas. At the back of the magazine I found a sobering … [Read more...]
Victory over fear, victory over illness
Modern Medicine has come a good distance in its shift from a strictly physiological view of patients to one that includes mental factors. Unquestionably, the mind-body connection has garnered the serious attention of many of today's researchers and medical professionals. One highly respected … [Read more...]
In 1946, a correspondent wrote this to The London Times
To many who come to it with little knowledge of its background the Bible may at first seem remote and somewhat irrelevant. It is rather like reading a guidebook describing a country which the reader has never seen. Once the country has been visited, the book comes alive. The purpose of the Bible is … [Read more...]
‘The hour is come’
I felt beaten. Two years of preparing to make Christian Science healing my full-time profession, and it looked as though everything was falling apart. I had resigned my job, and so a significant portion of our family's regular income had stopped. We’d planned to move across country, and our house … [Read more...]
Willingness to advance
The town meeting began routinely enough. What soon occurred, however, was a dispute between a handful of residents and a land developer. Some pretty sour feelings came to the surface. Wide differences needed to be resolved. A few people were visibly disturbed over certain issues. And yet, in … [Read more...]
Life’s journey: discovering the ageless work of God’s hand
Driving up Highway 1 in California, from San Luis Obispo to Big Sur and then into the San Francisco area, you see some of the most beautiful scenery in the world. Along the way are rolling hills dotted with oak trees, mile after mile of spectacular coastline, and acres of forest that occasionally … [Read more...]
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