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As a young adult , I became fascinated with evil—not with any desire to have it or practice it, but with a strong desire to end it. My effort to find solutions led me on a journey of studying anthropology, sociology, and psychology.

The apostle Paul’s admonition  “Pray without ceasing” ( I Thessalonians 5:17 ) is one of a list of prayer counsels I’ve come to call my prayer checklist. Unceasing prayer can seem impossible with everything else one has to do.

Court trials—real ones or those in movies or on TV—tend to promote the concept that there are many minds, many approaches, many sides, and many laws at odds with one another. There is the defendant, the prosecutor, the judge, the witnesses, and the jury, among others—all with many opinions and often conflicting motives.

At first Moses shrank from the divine demand to free the Israelites from bondage. He asked, “Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?” ( Exodus 3:11 ).

A fellow church member said to me, “Our church is just a shadow of what it used to be. ” I reflected on that for a moment.

Six years ago, a very special event in my life made me think more deeply about the topic of equal rights for women and men. This event was the birth of our first daughter.

Mary Baker Eddy describes how she felt after being healed of life-threatening injuries from a fall on the ice: “Being was beautiful, its substance, cause, and currents were God and His idea. I had touched the hem of Christian Science” ( Retrospection and Introspection, p.

A deep dive into the Bible shows us that many individuals experienced God’s saving and protecting power in the face of extreme adversity. Starting with Genesis, we read of the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and other key figures such as Sarah and Joseph, who saw God’s laws of harmony overcome such afflictions as floods, loneliness, hunger, disease, infertility, greed, jealousy, rivalry, and abandonment.

Is there a way that divisions in the world can be healed? Yes!  In Genesis, chapter one, God creates light and divides it from the darkness. Then He creates a firmament to “divide the waters from the waters” ( verse 6 ).

While I was praying about viruses, I asked God to give me a fresh view. The word host came to mind.