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

Call me 'Mom'

Listen to Verta Driver talk about her many children, and it's hard to keep them all straight. Motherhood is part of the very fabric of her life.

BREAK FREE ...FROM HEREDITY

I felt like I was always looking over my shoulder, afraid that some dreadful disease was going to sneak up on me or someone I loved. And no wonder.

BREAK FREE ...FROM ABUSE

I felt it was something that would stay with me forever. The scars from sexual abuse.

BREAK FREE ...From Your Childhood

It had gotten to the point where I couldn't even eat meals with other students. I'd entered college bearing the scars of an emotionally abusive childhood.

FOR THE HEALING OF THE NATIONS

Just as each individual has a spiritual identity that isn't tied to history, geography, and ethnicity—in fact, that is untouched by these and other material circumstances—so, too, do nations. The Bible lauds the oneself with oneself with God's household: "Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!" Ps.

BREAK FREE FROM THE PAST

Daniel had been shot while trying to protect a family member. Doctors operated on him, but said it was too risky to remove a bullet near his heart.

NATHALIE DUPREE ON JOY

My sister always had such an artistic eye that, early on, I thought, "Well, I can't be the artistic one. I'll be the bookish one.

SUSAN MCBRIDE ELS ON TEMPERAMENT

There's a widespread belief in the artistic world that pain and suffering are a necessary part of the creative process. That to be successful artists have to suffer, they have to be emotional.

JOHN SANT'AMBROGIO ON COLLABORATION

I can't think of the arts without thinking about one word: collaboration. It's not just because I love teamwork or because I've spent decades as a member of a professional orchestra.

Art isn't just built. It builds.