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The Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke each record an incident now known as the transfiguration. See Matt.

Does that surprise you? Well, it's true! Death is only a mythological misconception— which is just a fancy way of saying that it is an illusion. To human perception, of course, it seems inescapable, concrete reality.

The Publisher's Office received this letter from a branch church in Phoenix, Arizona : The participation of our branch Church of Christ, Scientist, in The Mother Church's goal to expand availability and accessibility of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy began with the formation of an ad hoc committee. The committee invited the membership to a meeting to generate ideas for giving the textbook.

This feature provides a forum where people around the world ask questions vital to the activities of church, and others respond with fresh, healing approaches. Questions pertain to subjects such as the public practice of Christian Science healing and nursing; the vitality of church membership; churches and Sunday Schools ministering to their communities; spiritual exploration and outreach at colleges and universities.

The March 1996 issue of The Christian Science Journal, and the Annual Meeting report carried in the July 1996 issue, focused on the healing mission, purpose, focus, and current priorities of the Church of Christ, Scientist. As a continuing report on how the Church is going forward in this work, senior managers at The Mother Church have been invited to write for the Journal a brief account of how workers in their area of activity are approaching these goals.

In a Christian Science Sunday School teachers' workshop, the guest speaker made the point that each one of us has an equal ability to express God's qualities of love, inspiration, intelligence, and freedom. When she asked us directly if we ourselves had an equal ability to teach, everyone in the room immediately answered with an enthusiastic "Yes!" Except for me.

To LOYAL CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS in this and every land I lovingly dedicate these practical teachings indispensable to the culture and achievements which constitute the success of a student and demonstrate the ethics of Christian Science MARY BAKER EDDY With these words Mrs. Eddy dedicates her book Miscellaneous Writings.

A friend of mine fell deeply in love with a girl. He saw her several times a week and they went on trips together.

Many commands and useful directives are warnings of what not to do: Don't drive through a red light; Don't put your hand on a hot stove; "Say No to drugs," and so on. In the Manual of The Mother Church, Mary Baker Eddy gives "A Rule for Motives and Acts," and its last sentence is a warning against doing a lot of things wrongly.

During October, November, and December last year, television producer Bill Moyers presented a series of ten hour-long programs on the Bible book of Genesis on public (noncommercial) television in the United States. He explained that among several reasons for tackling this project, titled Genesis: A Living Conversation, was his hope that it would serve to introduce (or reintroduce) many people to the stories in Genesis and the role these stories have played in shaping American culture and consciousness.