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I wanted a bicycle with every fiber of my being, but we were a poor family. I had been told by my teacher in a Protestant Sunday School class that God would answer my prayers.

A man nearing forty has hungered since his teens to be a novelist. He has readied himself, even earned a Ph.

Every so often, when a friend or an acquaintance finds out that I rely completely on God and inspired prayer for healing, he or she makes a comment like, "It must take a great deal of faith to be able to do that. " Yet those who have experienced healings through relying solely on God find it the most natural thing to do, and they become accustomed to expecting good results from prayer.

Prayer takes so many forms. Prayer can be a humble request for guidance, or it can be an exploration of profound truths of God and His creation.

Sharing Christian Science is essential if we're striving to love humanity as Christ Jesus did. Acquainting others with the truth of being is spirituality in action.

Marina Gorenkova is a senior at Principia College, Elsah, Illinois, majoring in business administration and German studies. Her home is in Moscow.

On January 12, the United States Supreme Court refused, unanimously and without comment, to hear a case brought by two church members against a number of past and present officers of The First Church of Christ, Scientist. The Court's denial of a hearing ended the suit, Weaver, et al.

An intriguing aspect of the current religious scene is the interest many people express in spirituality—apart from the conventional religious expression found in organized churches. One Gallup survey, reported at a December conference in Boston—"Spirituality & Healing in Medicine"—indicated that while 96 percent of Americans said they believed in God, only 43 percent had attended worship services within the past week.

The department of continuing education at Harvard Medical School and the Mind/ Body Medical Institute, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, will be holding their fifth conference on "Spirituality & Healing in Medicine" in Houston, Texas, from March 22 to 24. During the fourth conference in the series, in Boston in December, there were talks on African, Buddhist, Jewish, Roman Catholic, Islamic, Hispanic-Pentecostal, Christian Science, and several other healing practices, and plenary sessions on the efficacy of spiritual healing and its place in current medical practice.

It had been a busy weekend, and now I was quite ill. My fiancee and I had driven a maxivan van full of young Christian Scientists to a youth meeting in another state.