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To me, active support of the Wednesday testimony meetings in Churches of Christ, Scientist, includes a state of alertness.   “Testimony in regard to the healing of the sick is highly important,” writes Mary Baker Eddy in the Church Manual ( p.

One Wednesday I received a message from my son’s fourth-grade teacher saying he had been repeatedly talking out of turn and interrupting the other students in the class.   That evening as we drove to the testimony meeting at our branch Church of Christ, Scientist, my husband and I tried to discuss with our son the importance of expressing respect, consideration, and love for his classmates.

As I sat in my attorney’s office, he stated that the ultimate outcome of my case depended solely on which judge I was assigned. The judge’s personal bias would either undermine or help my case.

I have always loved to ski. When I lived in Oregon, I enjoyed going on guided ski trips that went to undeveloped mountains with slopes not served by ski lifts.

“The very circumstance, which your suffering sense deems wrathful and afflictive, Love can make an angel entertained unawares” (Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 574 ).

Last spring, on the one-year anniversary of the fire that nearly destroyed the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, my thoughts returned to that sad day. Watching the flames on TV, I recalled a Sunday morning 23 years earlier when I stood next to the altar of that great cathedral and, along with my college alumni glee club, sang the music for the service.

Have you ever felt like you’re not capable of feeling or hearing God? This author shares spiritual insights on what’s really true—that we’re never disconnected from God.

There has been  much discussion over the past year regarding “immunity”—specifically, how it can be achieved and maintained. There are many theories on how to manage the risk of infection and how to incapacitate the virus to the point where society can fully resume normal functioning, though not without accepting a “new normal” of health and safety.

How often have we seen God portrayed as a man, perhaps floating on a cloud? Michelangelo’s famous painting of creation on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel depicts God in just this way, about to touch Adam and presumably give him life. This is a mental picture that society has held over the centuries.

What a great joy to have had well over half of our worldwide Journal- listed practitioners join together for two distinct and different video conference calls last August. These meetings were the culmination of many conference calls among small groups of practitioners that occurred throughout the year.