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Putting on record insights into the practice of Christian Science.

On the freedom trail

The freedom trail is more than a physical trail. The writer outlines the different things going on in the US during the time of Mary Baker Eddy’s discovery (universal freedom), and shares Mrs. Eddy's talk at Tremont Temple as a way to explain this freedom trail we are all still on.

Can a career fulfill a holy purpose?

• A young man graduated from college a month ago. Now, hardly a week goes by without someone asking him what he plans to do with the rest of his life.

What changes us

Some Of The World's best-loved stories have to do with transformations of character. In the Bible, people even get new names to symbolize the change: Jacob to Israel, Simon to Peter, Saul to Paul.

Progress, perfection, and patience

Christ Jesus has stood as the supreme example for millions of men and women for some twenty centuries. He is Master, Teacher, Saviour.

Resurrecting the "lost" child

Our Indonesian friend spotted the carved mahogany statuette as we walked down a row of tent-like market stalls near Lake Toba in northern Sumatra. "Look!" she said.

Victory over fear, victory over illness

Modern Medicine has come a good distance in its shift from a strictly physiological view of patients to one that includes mental factors. Unquestionably, the mind-body connection has garnered the serious attention of many of today's researchers and medical professionals.

Know you matter to God

Knowing you are a deeply loved child of God, and understanding why this is so, is an effective defense against whatever kind of injustice you're battling.

The Commonly Held View of the millennium asserts that, essentially, it constitutes a calendar period of one thousand years since the advent of Christ Jesus, and that we are presently concluding the second millennium. (And despite the popular notion, the new calendar millennium actually begins on January 1, 2001, not January 1, 2000.

Joseph of Nazareth—man of faith

In real life, Joseph's role couldn't have been easy. MARILYN WAS AN UNFORGETTABLE "Joseph" in the Christmas play at our all-girls' school.

The quest for self-improvement

Someone Once Told Me of a prayer for self-improvement that went something like this: "Lord, please make me the kind of man my dog thinks I am. " There's nothing like having a high goal.