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If you want something elevating and spiritual to think about during the coronavirus lockdown...

If you want something elevating and spiritual to think about during the coronavirus lockdown…

No-one requested or wanted a lockdown, much less the coronavirus context for it. But as we do our duty as citizens, keeping as many as we can safe from harm, this can be a time to nurture our interests, improve latent skills, and explore new ideas. In the spirit of the latter, I offer these two talks I was privileged to deliver on four continents during my three year stint as a Christian Science…

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It's time for this e-newsletter to hit the road...

It’s time for this e-newsletter to hit the road…

Dear Friend,

I have been so grateful that you have allowed me to email you notifications of my blogs, SATURDAY THOUGHT photo-quotes, Christian Science lecture notices and other assorted items over the past few years. Thanks for your support.

You might have noticed that this email newsletter has been virtually dormant for some months now. Well, it now feels like it is time for me to officially…

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Some #MeToo healing thoughts

I’ve been grateful for several articles highlighting the spiritual strength of womanhood that we’ve been able to publish in the Christian Science Monitor’s “Christian Science perspective” column since the breaking of the Harvey Weinstein story, including pieces from some who share how they prayed through #MeToo moments. If anyone missed these articles and wants to read them, and a couple of…

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In case your Christmas isn't quite so happy...

In case your Christmas isn’t quite so happy…

Dear Friends,

In case anyone’s Christmas isn’t going quite the way they had wished, I wanted to share an article that includes a moving story of someone’s deep disappointment one Christmas opening her heart to a whole new sense of what constitutes a satisfying Christmas experience. To read the article, just click on the Sentinel cover below.

Whether you are having a less than perfect Christmas…

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Giving thanks for you!

Dear Friends,

Although I haven’t been sending out new website newsletters for quite a while, I am really grateful for all of you that have supported my blogging and photo-quotes over the years. Thank you! Additionally, I just love the cover of this week’s Christian Science Sentinel—what a terrific verbal and visual message for Thanksgiving Day!—so I wanted to share that with you, in case you…

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Calling for active witnesses to the power of love.

Calling for active witnesses to the power of love.

“Radiating joy” by Tony Lobl

Following last week’s tragic events in Charlottesville and Barcelona can our prayers play a significant part in opposing hatred?

“Overcoming hate”is a helpful “Christian Science perspective” article from the most recent edition of the Monitor Daily, which includes the following call to action: “I make strong demands on love, call for active witnesses to prove it, and…

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Ever-fresh beginnings! A SATURDAY THOUGHT (and a fond farewell)

Ever-fresh beginnings! A SATURDAY THOUGHT (and a fond farewell)

To see the full photo, without words, please click here.

This quote is from the Book of Revelation (21:5)

A (very) fond farewell…

Today, I give my final talk as a Christian Science lecturer, at least for the foreseeable future. It is a role I have deeply treasured, spiritually grown from, and it has allowed me to meet wonderful people around the world – including fellow church members, those who…

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Where belonging is forever and for all! A SATURDAY THOUGHT This quotation is from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (p.254) Here's a link to…

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It's a real pleasure! - A SATURDAY THOUGHT (Waverley and Weybridge talks)

It’s a real pleasure! – A SATURDAY THOUGHT (Waverley and Weybridge talks)

This is from Miscellaneous Writings (p. 82). The full quote reads:

“Immortal Mind is God, immortal good; in whom the Scripture saith “we live, and move, and have our being.” This Mind, then, is not subject to growth, change, or diminution, but is the divine intelligence, or Principle, of all real being; holding man forever in the rhythmic round of unfolding bliss, as a living witness to and…

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Overturning the underminer - A SATURDAY THOUGHT (and Australian tour news)

Overturning the underminer – A SATURDAY THOUGHT (and Australian tour news)

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This quote is from The Voice translation of the Bible.

If you live in Australia, or are visiting between May 20 and May 28, please come and see me as I tour with my lecture “Prayer that transforms us”, in Wynnum, Adelaide, Sydney (Dee Why), Wollongong, and Melbourne (Waverley).

In addition Wynnum is also hosting my second talk, “Mary Baker…

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A holy, healing aspiration! A SATURDAY THOUGHT This quotation is from The First Church of Christ, Scientist and Miscellany (p.150)

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Give generously! A SATURDAY THOUGHT (and Horsham talk)

Give generously! A SATURDAY THOUGHT (and Horsham talk)

This is from The Message paraphrase of the Bible.

And if you are in the West Sussex today, please join me for my talk, “Prayer that transforms us”, at 3pm this afternoon (Saturday, April 29).

The free hour-long talk, hosted by local Christian Scientists, will be at the Christian Science Church, Guildford Rd, on the corner of Blackbridge Ln, Horsham, West Sussex  RH12 1LU.

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Dawn prayer on the frontline? An ANZAC Day inspired editorial.

Dawn prayer on the frontline? An ANZAC Day inspired editorial.

ANZAC Day – which is on April 25 in Australia and NewZealand – has inspired my latest Christian Science Sentinel editorial on spiritual alertness.   “In this daily battle between conflicting perceptions of our being, our need is to ensure that God’s thoughts prevail in our consciousness over the opposite aspersions of the human mind.” Click photo to read the article on JSH-online.  

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Mutual blessings - A SATURDAY THOUGHT (plus Florida talks and radio interview)

Mutual blessings – A SATURDAY THOUGHT (plus Florida talks and radio interview)

To see this photo without the words, please click here.

My (free) talk on “Prayer that transforms us” will be rolled out in Florida twice this weekend…both times at 2pm. 

Today, First Church of Christ, Scientist Ocala will be hosting the hour-long event at the Appleton Museum of Art, at 4333 E Silver Springs Blvd in Ocala (FL 34470).

On Sunday the Melbourne and Cocoa Christian Scientists are…

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Love’s tender lessons – AN EASTER THOUGHT This quote is from The First Church of Christ, Scientist and Miscellany (p. 149) For my April editorial in The Christian Science Journal on "The ever-living Christ and God's ever-flourishing church", …

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Our one access to green pastures - A SATURDAY THOUGHT

Our one access to green pastures – A SATURDAY THOUGHT

  This quote is from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (p.537) The picture below is Anne Farley Gaines and her team from Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago working on a banner for today’s “spiritual staycation” event, . And here is the banner, as it was at 11pm last night! They were still putting finishing touches to it as I left.

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When life is no joke! AN APRIL FOOLS' DAY THOUGHT (plus invitation to a Chicago "staycation")

When life is no joke! AN APRIL FOOLS’ DAY THOUGHT (plus invitation to a Chicago “staycation”)

This is from Mrs Eddy’s “Message for 1902” (p.19). The paragraph it’s taken from reads: “O glorious hope! there remaineth a rest for the righteous, a rest in Christ, a peace in Love. The thought of it stills complaint; the heaving surf of life’s troubled sea foams itself away, and underneath is a deep-settled calm.”

If you are looking for some of that “rest in Christ” and you are in the Chicago…

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