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Healing is more than just physical treatment. At its heart, healing explores how each of us can be whole. Understanding that God’s commitment to each of us is love brings a power to healing that nothing else can. This lecture will explore the terrain of the patient. Focusing on the need for spiritual regeneration and development, it will explain how challenging the issues of self — self-will, self-love, self-justification — can bring more dominion to one’s life and health. Each healing example will illustrate the benefits of moving beyond physical care to spiritual restoration and wellbeing.

Eventually everyone faces situations in the human experience where there just aren’t very good human solutions. Then what would you do? This interactive lecture explores the healing approach that Christian Science brings to what appear to be unsolvable situations by drawing remarks from the audience on real-life challenges. The lecture poses three circumstances in which there were no viable human solutions and walks through how the healing principles of Christian Science were applied. But first, it’s your turn: What would you do if you were in that situation? (Particularly suited for a youth audience)

Economic fluctuations trouble not only nations but individuals as well. Yet these fluctuations may not be as objective as we think. Market and consumer indices which many use to measure the health of the economy have a lot to do with perception and then reaction. This lecture will examine the subjective nature of our economic experience (the need for looking for the spiritual supply within), examine the characteristics of what can be called the divine economy, and show how a deeper understanding of God and our relationship to Him can change our perceptions and reveal resources that may be overlooked. The lecture will show how prayer unleashes our divine resources and puts them into play in our lives.

Prayer is more than just asking God to do something and then waiting around to see if it’s done. There is a dynamic to prayer that invites us to learn more about how God, the divine intelligence of the universe, governs and constitutes what it creates and then impels us to act accordingly. Prayer is not passive; it’s active. And the environment is not so much a thing as a process; it’s constantly changing. This lecture will explore the dynamics of prayer, take a look at the mental climate that constitutes our environment, and then devise some strategies for more creative thinking regarding a healthy planet.

The contentious political landscape today requires a change in priorities, an allegiance to higher principles and courses of action. Prayer is a mental dynamic that enables human thought to reach for higher solutions based on divine intelligence. This kind of prayer challenges our thought to yield to a more spiritual perspective and discover how God governs; it subjugates partisanship to Principle, God. This lecture will explore how we can let the human yield to the divine and thus experience more creative approaches to governing. Relying on the divine nature to characterize our political attitudes brings insight, unity, and ingenuity. Letting the human yield to the divine in the process of governing blesses all mankind.

Whether it’s sectarian violence in the Middle East, the outbursts of fires in California, or the ravages of disease like AIDS, solutions can be found through the dynamics of prayer. This lecture explores the nature of prayer as the spiritual understanding of how God governs His creation and expresses that government in ways that meet collective needs. Drawing on the personal experience of the lecturer in politics and the healing ministry of Christian Science, the lecture speaks to the concern in human thought that some situations just defy solution and at times seem hopeless. Prayer is a radical change of thought that moves from the mesmerizing pictures of the human scene to the spiritual perspective that shows our lives under the harmonious control of divine Principle. The lecture will speak to what underlies these worldwide challenges and specifically how prayer can resolve them.