This blog’s weekly Wednesday focus is on what I have been calling “healing prayer narratives” and today’s blog touches on the role of spirituality in relation to the nursing care needed in healing. First, news that an upcoming Royal College of Nursing conference will include a focus on how licensed nurses deal with patients’ spiritual [...]
On Wednesday, Christian Science churches around the world host meetings that include spontaneously shared “experiences, testimonies, and remarks on Christian Science” for anyone curious to hear these accounts. Such experiences and testimonies of the practicality of the power of God’s love can range from the modest to the marvellous. This blog’s weekly Wednesday focus is [...]
There is a really cool, jazzy video of the nativity doing the rounds on Facebook. It has already been viewed over 3 million times on YouTube…three of them by me! In case you have missed it, here is The Digital Story of the Nativity: I crack up each time I see that click on the [...]
“The Nativity” – which airs in half-hour segments on BBC 1 at 7pm from Monday December 20 to Thursday December 23 - is a drama that is beautifully filmed and acted. It has a classy screenplay by award-winning East Enders and Life on Mars writer Tony Jordan which, you could say, is ably adapted from an original script by…God! [...]
The worldwide Manager of Christian Science Committees on Publication, Russ Gerber – my boss! – has been invited by The Washington Post to comment in response to the question of whether faith values have a place in determining issues like levels of taxation. Citing the example of Jesus at a meal offered to him by [...]
As previously reported, I recently had the pleasure of appearing on a panel with Anglican priest, author and BBC presenter Peter Owen Jones in Eastbourne, by invitation of the local Faith Forum. If anyone out there has an hour and a half to spare in their busy lives, this has now been posted as a [...]
Susan Thomas, the Christian Science Committee on Publication for Surrey was the guest on “Sunday Viewpoint” on Brooklands FM last week. She shared her thoughts about a different kind of faith, one that is based on spiritual law and a track record of experience, not on blind hope or resignation to the will of an [...]
This week, the Huffington Post has an article called “Women as religious Leaders: Breaking Through the Stained Glass Ceiling” written by Maureen Fiedler, who is the author of a new book on that very subject. Her report is surprisingly upbeat. After pointing out the trends for women to have more leadership roles in society [...]
Is life in the fast lane the only option? I recently read the following reflection called “Life’s Too Short?” by Methodist Minister and Broadcaster Reverend Tony Miles and it gave me pause for thought…about pausing more for thought and prayer. Which is probably what it was intended to do! Life’s Too Short? My car was [...]
Perhaps Jerry Seinfeld – who has recently started Twittering 140 character one-liners – might say that losing something as big as your faith is kind of careless. But it can happen. And according to the recent article Losing your faith is bad for your health in the UK’s Daily Telegraph a new study suggests that people doing so can [...]
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