Tag Archives: Mary Baker Eddy

What does Anna Karenina have to do with International Women’s Day and women’s health?

I was instantly and totally smitten with Anna Karenina when I first started to read the novel in my mid-teens. Tolstoy’s book set in the 1870s enveloped me in a whole new world, introducing themes of hypocrisy, jealousy, faith, fidelity, … Continue reading

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Want the Happiest of New Years? Trust Your Instinct to Care

This article was first published on these APN regional news websites: Toowoomba Chronicle, Bundaberg NewsMail, the Northern Star and Fraser Coast Chronicle. A friend related how an acquaintance was in hospital recently, suffering from a life-threatening illness. Things were looking pretty … Continue reading

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Top of our Christmas Wish-List is Health

Versions of this blog article are published on the national forum, Online Opinion, as Know what’s at the top of our Christmas wish list? Health, and What’s at the top of your Christmas wish-list? on the APN media website. “All I … Continue reading

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Health: Predetermined? Fate? For sale?

There’s a game where the price for goods that you produce is determined by a god called “Theoi”. Participants have the option of contributing some of their goods to Theoi in the hope of ‘pacifying him’ and becoming more successful. … Continue reading

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Big Brother Enlightens Us

This article was written for and first published by the Queensland Telegraph, Rockhampton on 1 September 2012 as “Big Brother ‘traffics in unreal situations”. Is there anything good to be said about Big Brother? Of course, I’m referring to the … Continue reading

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Loneliness, depression and Olympic fairy-tale endings

This post was first published on ON LINE Opinion - Australia’s e-journal of social and political debate. There is nothing like the feeling of standing on the stage or dais clasping your hard-won medal in two hands to the sound of thunderous … Continue reading

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Obese Nation or Opportunity for New Health Model?

This post was first published on ON LINE Opinion, Australia’s e-journal of social and political debate, as Connect the dots out of an obesity epidemic to ‘picture of health’. My childhood friend was getting quite plump, had trouble running and … Continue reading

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Are you mesmerised by the hungry wolf on the web?

This blog post was first published on Online Opinion. One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, “My son, the battle is between two “wolves” inside us all. One is … Continue reading

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Music and health – really?

In my guest post today, Bob Cummings, media spokesperson for Christian Science in Michigan, shares revealing research and personal experiences that point to just how the ‘harmonies of music’ can relieve and heal, both mentally and physiologically. Cancer patients were provided … Continue reading

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What’s Your Spiritual History?

When signing up with a new doctor or dentist we’re usually asked to give our medical history, but no-one asks about our spiritual history. An oversight perhaps? Times are a-changing …… explains my guest blogger today. Bob Clark is media … Continue reading

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Feeding “the Hungry Heart” with Health and Happiness

My guest post by Tony Lobl, British and Irish media/legislative representative for Christian Science, was first published on Huffington Post UK. Eight thousand Swiss people can’t be wrong. Some might wish they had been, though, according to a study in a science … Continue reading

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What’s normal? Health or illness?

In Australia, the issue of over-diagnosis is increasingly effecting both patient care and funding, as a piece on OnlineOpinion, Medicalising the Human by Peta Cox, proposed recently. Here’s a guest post today, first published on Huffington Post UK, by Tony … Continue reading

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Understanding miracles may impel healthcare innovation

Wasn’t it great to hear about Kath Evans’ recovery from lung cancer on Australian Story this week on the ABC? The fact that she attributes her extraordinary healing to intervention by the then Blessed Mary MacKillop impels me to question, … Continue reading

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Bringing Spirituality to Medicine

What will treating ‘the whole person’ mean for hospitals, nurses, doctors, chaplains and patients? My colleague, Don Ingwerson, media spokesperson for Christian Science in Southern California shares some interesting developments in the United States via his guest post today. Two … Continue reading

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Belief and Its Effect on Our Health

This article by Russ Gerber first appeared on Huffington Post. Penny Sarchet doesn’t think of herself as a detective, but she’s been acting like one. She recently received a prize for her science essay on the nocebo effect, one of the … Continue reading

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