The cliché, “The best defense is a good offense,” makes sense even to non-sports people like me. It can be applied to ball games, military combat, and I believe, it can be applied to religion. Too much defense and there is a lack of vision for scoring, whether the scoring results in a ball through…

The film, Happy, tells about the latest discoveries that happy people believe in something greater than themselves. I have to agree because believing that what I see and hear is reality only brings a happiness that comes and goes. Thirty years ago, finding fault with other people and organizations made me happy. Today, finding fault…

From 21st Century Science and Health: The carnal human mentality, misnamed mind, is mortal. In his resurrection and ascension, Jesus showed that a mortal creature is not our real essence. If it were not for the indissoluble immortal connection between God and spiritual identity, people would be annihilated. In divine Science, mortality disappears in the…

In the Bible, the book of Job portrays a man, Job, who gets robbed of everything by the Devil. Everything human beings consider to be good and deserving gets taken away by the Devil. As Job lay in bed suffering, his friends visit. The older friends start psychobabbling as to why Job is in his…

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