By Harv Bishop Is Alcoholics Anonymous’s (AA) scrupulous avoidance of social issues a model for New Thought churches? As AA has a single purpose — alcoholics helping other alcoholics maintain sobriety, Religious Science and other New Thought churches have a single purpose — teaching spiritual principles, a retired Religious Science minister recently told me via…
By Mitch Horowitz I’ve recently written on this page about the radical New Thought tradition of social rebels such as black-nationalist Marcus Garvey, feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and author and socialist activist Wallace D. Wattles. But Harvey Bishop’s recent interview with Rev. Chris Terry helped me realize that I’ve been emphasizing only the half the…
BY HARV BISHOP Creating a world that works for everyone doesn’t work for everyone in the world of New Thought “If I show up at a [New Thought church] I am there for one reason and one reason only — the advancement of my personal awareness,” said a man on Facebook responding to an article…
BY HARV BISHOP Religious Science teachings were never written in stone. In the last two years of his life, Ernest Holmes, founder of the Science of Mind philosophy, found a new passion: teaching the works of the famed Indian sage Sri Aurobindo. Holmes’s seminal book “The Science of Mind,” which has helped millions learn to…
By Mitch Horowitz Science of Mind magazine columnist and ministerial student Masando Hiraoka recently lamented on this blog the paucity of “Millennials” within Centers for Spiritual Living (CSL) churches and communities. The fact is, many metaphysical congregations and organizations on the alternative spiritual scene are experiencing an aging membership base. I recently delivered the keynote address…
