World Issues & Government
“The Bible encourages us to “hold fast that which is good” (I Thessalonians 5:21). We can hold to the reality that no one’s true, spiritual identity can be lost.”
“When we hear of bad behavior, we can respond constructively by supporting and expressing the strength and goodness of a higher standard. We can rise above anger, cynicism, or despair by appreciating courage, persistence, and unselfishness as spiritual qualities inherent in everyone.”
“It’s natural to want to see a better world – free from suffering, oppression, and bad behavior. The daily news reports much injustice and tragedy. But we also hear of people’s courage, forgiveness, and kind and often heroic deeds. When people act unselfishly, it reveals a higher standard of humanity that transcends personal absorption and gives true peace and satisfaction.”
“Are chaos and variableness really the principles behind existence, or is there another, more reliable Principle that we can base our lives on?”
“Jesus showed us how to abide in the allness of divine Love with concrete assurance by living our spiritual identity as we move through and transcend our human experience.”
“Our lives and our livelihoods are immovably fixed in Principle, divine Love, where our perfection is unshakable.”
“Much the way the earth appears flat from any place you stand on it, even though it is actually round and would be seen as round from out in space, life seems limited and finite from our personal viewpoint. Yet all the while our life is unlimited and eternal and is always seen that way from the standpoint of divine Mind, God, our real Life.”
“God is divine Life, and Life is no more confined to the forms which reflect it than substance is in its shadow.”
Mary Baker Eddy
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
“Your influence for good depends upon the weight you throw into the right scale. The good you do and embody gives you the only power obtainable.”
Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to
the Scriptures
“Whatever guides thought spiritually benefits mind and body.”
Mary Baker Eddy
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
“...I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.”
Jeremiah 29:11
The Bible, New King
James Version
“In a world of sin and sensuality hastening to a greater development of power, it is wise earnestly to consider whether it is the human mind or the divine Mind which is influencing one.”
Proverbs 3
The Bible, New Living Translation
“He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.”
Deuteronomy 32
The Bible, King James Version
“Post-truth (adj.)- relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief”
Oxford English Dictionary
“Since the divine Mind is the only real source of our thoughts, turning to this Mind brings us intelligence and inspiration, including the capacity to discern and value what is true, and to avoid being manipulated by political or social agendas.”
Amelia Newcomb shares how she dealt with her son being detained and then imprisoned in another country. As she worked to get him released through every channel available, the one thing that kept her grounded were her prayers.
Francine Kiefer, a longtime journalist for The Christian Science Monitor, is the guest. Her work as a journalist and her practice of Christian Science have helped her learn that there is a remedy for relationship conflict. What is it? Join Francine and host David Brown to find out.
Carlos Machado shares how he dealt with feeling helpless and angry when faced with legal action from one of his business clients, and later, during a family conflict. What was the antidote to his anger?
It’s difficult to witness the world’s apparently never-ending conflicts. But, Madora Kibbe offers spiritual insights that shed light on how we can still find and experience peace.
“Will computers ever be able to receive spiritual intuitions, inspiration, or direction from divine intelligence, God—communications that come through spiritual sense alone?”
“We must not attribute more and more intelligence to matter, but less and less, if we would be wise and healthy.”
Mary Baker Eddy
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
“It may seem that very bright people invent things..., but the intelligence never originates with the inventor. The spiritual idea that impelled the advance itself is an expression of God's intelligence.”
“The highest trust is putting our faith not in human circumstances or other people but in God and divine goodness. ...When we trust God, we find goodness to be real and forever ongoing because it is God-inspired, God-established, and God-maintained.”
“...when we acknowledge that God is the supreme Mind and that He will lead us only in ways that are right for us, we can trust God to do just that.”
“Trust is a spiritual muscle that needs to be exercised and thereby strengthened. We strengthen it by keeping God’s nature—His all-power, ever-presence, and comforting, healing love—uppermost in our thinking and by allowing God to govern our actions. Like all exercise, sometimes this takes great effort.”
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take.”
Proverbs 3
The Bible, New Living Translation