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Conversations with experienced Christian Scientists on topics of interest.

Finding a new meaning to THE MILLENNIUM

This interview with contributing editor Richard Bergenheim was heard on the Christian Science Sentinel—Radio Edition, first broadcast during the week of December 6, 1999. The interviewer is Alexis Deacon of the Radio Edition staff.

Sharing music . . . with love

Rebecca Silver Weber is a concert pianist who has performed in solo and chamber music concerts throughout the United States. She has appeared in performance with members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the New York Philharmonic, and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.

"I trust ... the love of God"

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Where do you look for answers?

Where do young adults turn to find comfort, guidance, and healing? Where do they look to find ideas about God or to gain insight into the Bible? Below, Madeline Clark of Bethlehem, New Hampshire, John Tchernev of Evanston, Illinois, Anterro Villalpando of Mexico City, Mexico, and Alex Harbur of the Bahamas discuss with contributor Dorothy Estes what they find helpful about author Mary Baker Eddy's ideas in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, and how those ideas can be helpful to others. (See the December 1999 issue of this magazine for comments from four other young people.

Where do you look for answers?

Where do young adults turn to find comfort, guidance, and healing? Where do they look to find ideas about God or to gain insight into the Bible? Contributor Dorothy Estes interviewed Mia Signs of State College, Pennsylvania, Chris and Drew Harbur of the Bahamas, and Chris Hamer-Smith of Sydney, Australia, about what they find helpful about author Mary Baker Eddy's ideas in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, and how those ideas can be helpful to others. (Look for comments from four other young people in the February 2000 issue of the Journal.

The Christian Science Monitor: Its place in my life

In its ninety-year history , The Christian Science Monitor has won a fair share of journalism awards, including six Pulitzer Prizes. Perhaps more important, it has won readers' hearts to a fairer view of humanity, supplying realism that is both truthful and respectful.

Two South Africans bear witness to God's goodness

Two young mothers, Kim Isaacs and Sarah Brokensha , meet every Thursday morning to study the Weekly Bible Lesson  From the Christian Science Quarterly together on a remote farm, several miles from the village of Shakaskraal in Kwa-Zulu-Natal . Earlier this year, our News Editor, Kim Shippey , eavesdropped (with permission!) on one of these informal gatherings, and here is his report.

Finding true peace in Belfast

Margaret McConnell and her husband, Victor, have lived as close as anyone we know to the "troubles" of the past thirty years in Belfast, Northern Ireland. They are about four miles from the city center, but bombs, guns, and other forms of violence have never kept them from church attendance, from serving in the local Christian Science Reading Room, nor from their family and work commitments.

"Olga Alexandrovna wasn't afraid of anything at all"

Tatyana Sokolova : Olga Alexandrovna Barteneva was a member and First Reader in the Christian Science Society in St. Petersburg.

The Christian Science Journal—designed to heal

Over the past year, employees at The Mother Church in Boston, Massachusetts, have been gathering in the Sunday School building almost every Thursday to bear from the various departments at the Church Center about bow their work is fulfilling the mission, purpose, focus, and priority objectives of the Church of Christ, Scientist. Last May, Barbara M.