Editorials

Her Words Came To Me Over The Phone: "Whenever someone talks to me about goodness and the importance of being good, I feel like I'm being asked to give up my individuality. " How much I longed to reach over the miles that separated us and hug this fourteen-year-old dancer.

What Was I Looking For? A group where I could formulate ideas—whether those ideas were important or unimportant—and to strive with others for the "right path. " And what did I find? Closeness to people to whom I felt bound by common goals and experiences: local, national, international, universal.

At this time of civilization's development , and with the coincidence of the Christmas season, it is useful to think deeply about the place of Christmas in our lives and what it stands for in our practice of Christian worship. We might even ask, "What is the Christian's obligation to Christmas?" What is the Christian's obligation to Christmas? Does Christmas 2002 call for a new birth in Christian thought and action about the Holy Land and beyond? Could the gift of renewal redeem Christian doctrine, tradition, ceremony, and their practice at this season—and for all time? Christmas began in a land now torn and divided.

Ten years ago, you had to do some serious detective work to find the Scripture section in a major bookstore. And when you did sleuth it out, it was usually a shelf or two, at the most.

As new parents, my husband and I were passionate about every detail of our first son's care and education. We had determined that violin lessons were a key ingredient in the development of his character and talent.

Editor's note: The Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity will open its doors to the public on September 29, 2002. We asked the Library's Chief Executive Officer, Stephen I.

Question: "If you were to take an orange, throw away the peel, squeeze out the juice, destroy the seeds and pulp, what would be left?" Answer: "There would be left the thought of the orange. " This exchange took place in a schoolroom.

Just one chapter, seven pages in length, out of the total of 700 pages, specifically addresses the subject of animal magnetism in Mary Baker Eddy's transforming book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. The importance of dealing rightly with this subject is in reverse proportion to the number of pages devoted to it.

Steven Austad , a researcher and professor of biology at the University of Idaho, is confident that by the year 2150 someone will live to be 150 years old. Healtheir lifestyles, the promises of biomedical technologies, and advances in genetic research have convinced him that someone alive today will be around long enough to easily bridge into the next century.

God’s motherly love is reflected in us all— and is always available.