The following example of healing prayer and explanation of how it works, was recently published as a Houston Chronicle blog entitled “Michelle: Christian healing > No miracle > Natural”: Many years ago, I taught Michelle in Sunday School. A few years later, when she was a teenager, she went to a party and drank until she was drunk. [...]
A thought-provoking study has recently been summarised on the National Electronic Library for Medicines of the NHS (that’s the National Health Service, for any overseas visitors!) called The effect of treatment expectation on drug efficacy: imaging the analgesic benefit of the opioid remifentanil This is a summary – by Pharm-line - of a study by “U Bingel, V Wanigasekera, K Wiech, R Ni [...]
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 [...]
The cases below are ones in which the best of modern medicine was not affording a needed cure. These cases do not include Christian Science prayer-based healing treatment nor any spiritual or other alternative approach to treatment. But they are thought-provoking illustrations that the body does not necessarily need to act according to medical diagnosis [...]
My 100th blog as media and legislative representative for the Christian Science movement in the UK and the Republic of Ireland happens to coincide with a much more significant 100th anniversary commemoration. It is 100 years today (December 3, 2010) since the passing of Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered and founded Christian Science. What is [...]
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Well, yes, from my point of view there was a minor miracle on Newsnight last week. The BBC’s nightly “current affairs, investigative programme” has miraculously – because it surely wasn’t intentional! – promoted Mary Baker Eddy’s venerable and vibrant classic on Christian healing. The almost as venerable and vibrant news programme showed a LARGE [...]
Two key aspects of my life as a child of Jewish Holocaust survivors come together on stage in a delightful drama being performed at Hampstead’s 60-seater Pentameters Theatre, above The Horseshoe pub on Heath Street. (Playing every night at 8pm, except Mondays, from now till November 13, and on Sunday afternoons at 5pm. Firstly, I [...]
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 [...]
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