Editorials

There’s so much bullying of thought going on in today’s world. People seem to want to tell you what’s best for you—they want you to conform to their way of thinking, impose their will on you, be in control of your experience.

“Those who look for me in person, or elsewhere than in my writings, lose me instead of find me,” wrote Mary Baker Eddy in 1906. She was responding to Rev.

IT'S A QUESTION we can ask ourselves often—even if we've been members of The Mother Church and/or one of its branches for decades. Sometimes my heart sings with the thrill of church membership.

THERE'S A LOT SAID AND WRITTEN ABOUT THE VALUE of forgiveness. People describe how much healing has come into their lives when they were able genuinely to forgive.

IT WILL TAKE SOME TIME, perhaps centuries of mental and spiritual advancement, but eventually we'll find that food isn't the ogre it's cracked up to be. Of itself, food holds no power to condemn people to obesity, food obsessions, or food-related diseases.

WELL, GOOD MORNING, MY FRIEND. Or maybe good evening.

MY FLIGHT OUT of New York had been slightly delayed, but I made my connection in Chicago with ease. In fact, when I got to the gate of my connecting flight they had just started to board, and I could walk right on into the airplane.

A HOSTILE TAKEOVER most often refers to one company taking over another against its will. It's a good description of a lot that happens outside the business world, too.

EVERY INDIVIDUAL HAS A PURPOSE TO FULFILL. This is true both in terms of daily life as well as an eternal reason for being.

THIS QUESTION HAS COME UP at nearly every town meeting the Board of Directors has held over the last five years with Christian Scientists around the world: Where do you see our Church 50 years from now? Sometimes you hear concern in the questioner's voice. Sometimes you see pencils poised for note-taking, as if people expect to hear about an elaborate program for Church expansion.