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My story about the blessing of Mother Church membership involves an unlikely place—a hospital emergency room. Playing second base in a Men’s Senior Baseball League game, I received a deep gash one day from a spike on a double play.

Christ Jesus the Ensample. He who dated the Christian era is the Ensample in Christian Science.

In preparing to understand and engage in interfaith activity, it’s helpful to look at the Preamble of the United Religions Initiative (URI) charter. Its first four sentences read: “We, people of diverse religions, spiritual expressions, and indigenous traditions throughout the world, hereby establish the United Religions Initiative to promote enduring, daily interfaith cooperation, to end religiously motivated violence, and to create cultures of peace, justice, and healing for the Earth and all living beings.

A tour of England this past year in celebration of the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible has been an eye-opener for me. It has me wanting to shout from the rooftops: How blessed we are to have ready access to the whole Bible in our own language! I’m also so grateful that Mary Baker Eddy had access to the Bible, which she refers to as “my only authority” ( Science and Health , p.

I was raised in the Catholic faith and received a variety of explanations of God from priests, nuns, and lay people, but the common consensus was that God was unknowable. From what I could gather, He was a powerful, creative deity, and if you caught Him on a good day, He’d perform a miracle.

After I graduated from college and was living in the Chicago area, it occurred to me that maybe I should move to Los Angeles and work in the film industry. It took me a few months to be obedient to what more and more started to feel like a divine idea.

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The time of harvest, reaping the rewards of mercy, kindness, the reign and rain of righteousness, is at hand. Let it embrace you, penetrate you, permeate your every thought, need, and circumstance.

The dance was only a few days away, and things weren’t looking good. I was putting on the eighth grade dance for the middle school where I work, and with so many details still not coming together, I was feeling burdened.

God knows our need, and He has shown me this on many occasions.   One evening, I searched everywhere in my home for something I needed in my work.