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To strike out right and left against the mist, never clears the vision; but to lift your head above it, is a sovereign panacea. —MARY BAKER EDDY IN A WAY, IT'S NOT A NEW DEBATE.

One thing leads to another, but often in unexpected ways. Just ask Judy Jackson.

MY FIRST VISIT TO BANGLADESH WAS IN 1972. The desire had come a few years before, when the Annual Meeting of The Mother Church focused on the international field.

ANYONE WHO HAS LEAFED through The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language and read a line or two knows that Eugene H. Peterson has an ear.

Every one of her ten visits to Bethlehem over the past ten years has brought new insights into the nativity, says contributor Olene Carroll, author of "Humility fit for a king" (p. 10).

REJECTS. That's the word we saw stamped here and there on the corrugated metal sheets that formed the walls of the ramshackle shack my teenaged daughter, Emily, and I entered one morning last August.

THE MAIN THING WAS: It just didn't seem fair. I'd just gotten back into training after a broken shoulder had kept me on the sidelines during most of the track season.

DID YOU KNOW that there's a whole week in November when people celebrate the Bible and why its stories and ideas are still important? It's called National Bible Week, and it happens during the same week as Thanksgiving in the United States. In honor of that week, the Journal talked with four kids about their favorite Bible characters and what they've learned from these characters' lives and stories.

WHEN MY WIFE JOANNE AND I GOT MARRIED 13 years ago, I said "I do" to the whole package. The whole package meant helping to raise her two small boys, Jordan and Jarrod, which was no small task, but one I was ready to dive into.

TODAY, WHEN I THINK ABOUT GRATITUDE, I think about forgiveness—and what God has already done for me. A long time ago, before I came to the United States from Nigeria, a man insulted and harassed me.