All A Christian Science Perspective
- Easter’s promise – a lift out of loneliness
Today’s contributor explores how “the ever-dawning promise of Easter can resurrect our thought from darkness and despair to light and peace.”
- If you’re tempted to cheat
When opportunities arose to cheat on an exam, today’s contributor, who’d been struggling at school, was tempted. Instead, considering God as the source of limitless intelligence inspired her to take the honest path and ultimately find that “putting our trust in God always gives us what we need – without cheating.”
- When the stings in our life are healed
A swift healing of a jellyfish sting brought today’s contributor new inspiration about the power of God’s cleansing love to heal “stings” of all types.
- Assault ‘is not your story’
Today’s contributor shares how the realization that we can never be outside of God’s care inspired an idea that enabled her to safely escape an attempted assault and to move forward with peace and confidence rather than a sense of fear or victimization.
- God’s goodness is unlimited
When today’s contributor didn’t have enough funds to both pay her tax bill and register her car, the idea that God’s goodness is endless lifted her fear and brought peace. And in short order, unexpected income came in that was just the amount she needed to pay each bill on time.
- What does it mean to be spiritual?
Today’s contributor explores how knowing our true identity as fundamentally spiritual helps us see beyond limitations, rise above fears, and experience our relation to God in a very real way.
- Hope and healing for the environment
Scientists point to depleted resources and devastating weather events as evidence of climate change. In this podcast, the Monitor interviews a Christian Science practitioner and teacher about how a spiritual perspective can nurture hope and healing in our communities and environment.
- The stillness of prayer: The starting point for peace and progress
Today’s contributor explores the idea that anchoring thought in God’s love brings peace, healing, and courage even in the midst of tumult.
- Finding balance: Look at the big picture
Overwhelmed and exhausted by personal and professional responsibilities, this mother yearned for a solution – and found that keeping one’s thought grounded in God helps maintain and restore order and balance.
- A healing for Wrigley
When her dog suddenly became incapacitated, today’s contributor turned to God with her whole heart. What followed was a tangible sense of the all-encompassing goodness God expresses in His creation, and the dog was completely healed.
- Everyone is needed
Today’s contributor explains how purpose and value are built into our very nature as God’s children and shares how a friend was saved from suicidal desires as she realized that.
- The transparency most needed
If we want more transparency in the world, explains today’s contributor, letting God’s light work its purifying effect in our own lives is an important step.
- He was stealing flowers, so I punched him
Today’s contributor shares spiritual ideas that not only helped him gain the upper hand over a tendency to react aggressively, but also led to the healing of a hand he’d damaged in a moment of anger.
- A way out of desperate straits
Job loss, anxiety, and an inability to pay their family’s mounting bills left today’s contributor in a dark mental place. But the idea that we live “in the house of the Lord” was a light that gradually lifted the hopelessness and inspired solutions, paving the way for a complete turnaround.
- ‘There is none else’
Here’s a poem that highlights how we can never be outside of the powerful, universal presence of God.
- Creativity, innovation, and spiritual inspiration
Today’s contributor explores the idea that creativity and innovation, which support meaningful solutions to problems, are spiritual qualities everyone has the ability to express.
- Honesty and God’s impartial goodness – what’s the connection?
In the wake of the recently uncovered college admissions scheme in the United States, today’s contributor explores the value and spiritual power of honesty.
- Keeping civil discourse civil
Today’s contributor explores the idea that more harmonious and productive discourse results when we take to heart the counsel of Jesus to love even those who seem like enemies.
- Working through ‘the problem of evil’
Today’s article explores the idea that preventing violent attacks starts with redefining evil as a distortion of reality, and recognizing that everyone has God-derived rights of self-government, reason, and conscience.
- A new view, a new life
“Work was my life,” writes today’s contributor, until he suffered a stroke and was certified as totally and permanently disabled. Then he experienced a change in perspective – a spiritual sense of identity – that transformed his life, bringing healing and joy.