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To Our Readers: We're involved in a major project with The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts. This has left little time for posting here. But we'll post as often as possible, so please keep checking in!
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Got a Godometer?
In an effort to cut emissions, 400 Denver drivers are having accelerometers installed in their cars to monitor their driving habits. Great—but not as great as having a Godometer in your head.
Monday, March 31, 2008
Better Experience, Cheaper Price
A critic sings the praises of the Metropolitan Opera's live telecasts to movie theaters around the world, saying they provide a better experience for the audience and a cheaper price to boot. You could say the same about Christian Science healing.
Friday, February 29, 2008
Understanding Our Makeup
Now there are companies dedicated to helping people understand their genetic information—to helping them understand what makes them what they are. For a couple thousand years there's been a religion that does that—but the "genetic information" is much different.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Retiring Retirement
With millions of baby boomers about to enter retirement, lots of people are trying to change retirement. But the best change is to retire retirement.
Monday, February 11, 2008
Violence? Only a Suggestion.
The news is so riddled with accounts of violence that anyone can be excused for wondering how the mayhem ever can be stopped. But there is a way: by realizing that it's only a suggestion and not a reality.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Church Launches New Web Site
This past Wednesday, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, launched a new Web site, christianscience.com. Check it out.
Friday, January 18, 2008
Information at Our Fingertips
GPS devices are getting more and more sophisticated, providing users with not just routes to destinations but traffic updates, fuel prices, and ads relevant to the area being traversed. Useful stuff—but there's a better source for all the information we need, and it's always at hand.
Tuesday, January 08, 2008
Grand Plans—and Actions—for a New Year
As 2008 opens, some of the world's biggest cities are proposing the most ambitious real-estate projects in a generation, indicating their confidence in urban living despite a currently bleak financial scene. Are we proposing equally ambitious spiritual projects even if the worldly outlook isn't too inviting?
Saturday, November 24, 2007
Starting New Now
Scientists report they've found a way to create human embryonic stem cells from mature cells—a breakthrough that gets coveted stem cells without destroying embryos. This highlights another fact: no matter what our past, we can all start new now by claiming our always mature spirituality.
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Defeating DNA Prejudice
More and more people in and outside DNA laboratories are beginning to fear that DNA research will lead to renewed racial prejudice—that one race is smarter than another or more prone to certain diseases than another, for instance. But there's a quickening spirit that skewers all this.
Friday, October 26, 2007
World-Changers Meet
Movers and shakers at the 2007 Pop!Tech conference were asked to consider the question "What does it mean to be a human being at the beginning of the 21st century?" We can even more profitably ask "What does it mean to be a spiritual being at the beginning of the 21st century?"
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Safe Anywear
A Japanese fashion designer is developing a skirt that unfolds to disguise the wearer as a vending machine. Why? For safety on the street. But there's a better option: the armor of God.
Monday, October 08, 2007
Eternal Summer
Ingmar Bergman's 1951 film Summer Interlude deals with first love, the disillusion that follows, and what one critic calls "an overwhelming accession of bliss." That's a bliss we all can know.
Monday, October 01, 2007
The New Me Generation
Narcissism is up, but so what? Some say narcissists are good for business, having confidence to push through bold ideas and to take risks others would resist. Well, here's a bold idea: we can be part of a Me generation that has nothing to do with narcissism and everything to do with God and goodness for everyone.
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Making a New Church
A church that formerly had an all-white congregation now finds its pews filled with people from countries around the world. Such diversity is great, but even better is realizing that all of them are really God's spiritual expressions.
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Reliable Health Information
"Why can’t we trust much of what we hear about diet and health?" reads the home-page teaser for the lead article in The New York Times Magazine. Maybe because we're looking in the wrong place. But we can get reliable information straight from the source of good health: God.
Sunday, September 09, 2007
Good Deeds for 9/11—and Beyond
A growing movement looks to spur people to do good deeds on September 11 in memory of those who died helping others in the 2001 terrorist attack in New York. We all can do good deeds—and not just on 9/11.
Monday, September 03, 2007
Pulling Bootstraps
Rudolf Nureyev, the famous dancer, said that, growing up in the Soviet Union, he knew no one was going to help him. While it’s easy to understand that attitude, the fact is that powerful help is always available to all of us.
Sunday, August 26, 2007
The Intensity of Good
Hurricane forecasters have gotten better at predicting a storm's track, but they still have problems predicting a hurricane's intensity. Actually, though, there's something that's more helpful to know: the intensity of good.
Sunday, August 19, 2007
Economic Intervention
The US Federal Reserve intervened in the country's economy on Friday, hoping to short-circuit turmoil in credit markets around the world, and it's considering further steps. Each one of us can intervene in very helpful ways too.
Friday, August 10, 2007
Unfreezing Life
Microorganisms frozen in Antarctic ice for 100,000 years came to life when given food and heat. While that surprised some microbiologists, the fact is that good can always be restored and cultivated, even where it seems totally absent. All we have to do is provide the right conditions.
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