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Exploring in depth what Christian Science is and how it heals.

The power of spiritual sense

The author explains how we exercise our innate, spiritual sense by shifting from a material to a spiritual basis.

Letter to a friend

Dear Friend, Your letter concerning church issues touched me deeply. I, too, have been praying for our Church on bended knee.

A spiritual hunger

What he was preaching was attitude . Not attitude of the variety of sullenness or hostility.

Good news stated simply

SACRED, YET SIMPLE . That was the goal when the American Bible Society (ABS) commissioned The New Testament in Today's English Version.

CONTRIBUTORS

"At the time," says Lynn Jackson, "the practitioner's suggestion that I get a better sense of body only puzzled me. I thought, 'A better sense of body? Can't just be healed?' " But for Lynn, now a Christian Science practitioner and teacher herself, that suggestion proved invaluable—and not just because of the healing.

Keep an open heart

AS I TAUGHT, I tried to make eye contact with each of my students. Some drifted off to sleep, some seemed pleasantly attentive, and others looked as if they had swallowed Mexican jumping beans.

A different kind of fairy tale

I LOVE ACTING. I wanted to participate in a play at my music school, in Hennef, Germany, and signed up for it.

FACE TIME WITH GOD

My friend and I refer to it as my fight with the dog—the dog that lurked in the forest. But that's just our goofy way of describing the day last year when I crawled through a patch of poison oak in the woods behind my school.

Adventures in fatherhood

I NEVER EXACTLY SAID YES TO HAVING A FAMILY. But I didn't say no either.

A peaceable kingdom

IT'S AN astonishing statement the prophet Isaiah made. "The wolf," he said, "also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.