Letters & Conversations

Moscow services I cannot find the words to express the feelings I have for The Christian Science Journal, which I have been getting for three years. I look forward to every issue, and having received it, leave all my engagements until I have read right through it.

Womanhood For years I have been truly grateful for the enriching, redirecting, and uplifting articles and poems that have come to me monthly in The Christian Science Journal . It seems to me that their directness has become increasingly evident in recent years.

Journal covers Thank you for the beautiful and inspiring cover photos on recent issues of The Christian Science Journal . They lead to an expectancy of spiritual truths within the pages.

Women of the Bible How thrilled I was to read the beautifully written article in the March issue of The Christian Science Journal , "Biblical women: portraits of our heritage. " Having just emerged from Biblical studies in a seminary myself, I feel at home with this kind of refreshingly straightforward manner of scholarship.

Favorite poem I know just how much I have appreciated—over a period of more than forty years—the numerous inspiring poems, articles, and testimonies published in the Christian Science periodicals. It has been remiss of me not to have written to you before now and expressed my deep gratitude for such contributions.

CHURCH SOLOS The article "Singing in His service" in the January issue of The Christian Science Journal brought me a new way of approaching the solos I sing in my church—a Presbyterian church. I have often felt frustrated about my singing, feeling it was not as acceptable as others' singing.

Visitor from Israel A dear friend whom I had known since our schooldays in South Africa went to settle in Israel in the 1970s, saying she wanted to contribute to the building of Israel. When I visited her there fifteen years later, I felt that our conversation ended at Malachi—at least on a spiritual level—and our communication remained purely on a social level.

August Journal As a Christian, raised in Tennessee and West Virginia, I never felt complete and fulfilled by the messages concerning God. It was only after discovering Christian Science, at the suggestion of my voice teacher in New York, that I understood more clearly my relationship to a loving and generous rather than a vengeful God.

New student I have been studying Christian Science for about a year. When I discovered Mary Baker Eddy's writings, I felt that I had discovered profound spiritual truth after a long search.

An artist comments I was so pleased to read the poem "Wide enough" in the August issue of The Christian Science Journal. Last September, I opened an exhibition of twenty-one large computer prints based on three themes—Grass, Sky, and Prisms.