Leaving it to God—or to chance?

Feb 27, 2013 | Articles, Tom Taffel Articles

As an undergraduate at Rochester Institute of Technology, I was required to take a course in statistical analysis.  Although the course was rather forgettable, one concept intrigued me: “Poisson Probability,” the work of Siméon-Denis Poisson in the 1830s.  Poisson was...

Bless These Hands

Feb 25, 2013 | Articles

Bless These Hands By Rev. Paul Lachlan Peck, I Universe, (Psalm 90:17) 7,7,7,7 Bless these hands, O Lord, that work In the vineyard day by day; May they never idly shirk From the tasks within the Way. Keep my motives pure and clear, Keep my heart in loving Grace; Keep...

“The Coming”

Feb 21, 2013 | Articles

Music: G. Mantle-Childe Words: Rosa Maude Turner Submitted By Ed Helms Christ comes as softly as the Springtime’s dawning Unfolding tender joys from day to day; Christ comes as surely as the light of morning Rolls the dark curtain of the night away. Christ comes...

Hymn #412

Feb 20, 2013 | Articles

“When i’m feeling lost, marginalized, ignored, attacked, I find great solace  in hymn #412 from the Christian Science Hymnal. It’s a beautiful prayer that we can use to combat the darkness we sometimes fall in when the hate is just too much or when...

Love, and love-me support systems

Feb 15, 2013 | Articles

Love cannot possess; neither can it be possessed. Yet so many people attempt to buy and sell love as they would buy and sell stock in the marketplace. Quite a remarkable woman, Mary Baker Eddy who founded Christian Science, wrote much about Love. She said, “Love...