Letters & Conversations

Gospel of Mark The new series on the Gospel of Mark starts out with one of the best written introductions I have read. I am a retired Episcopal priest who continues to serve in parishes as needed and who continually seeks to more fully understand Christ's message to us.

The following is from a letter the Editors recently received. We felt it was a helpful illustration of the protection and healing that result from chastity.

SPIRITUALITY AND HEALING In The Christian Science Journal's report on the second Harvard "Spirituality & Healing in Medicine" conference, it was encouraging to see Christian Science publicly acknowledged as playing an important role in the field of spirituality and healing. The fact that the conference expressed deep respect for the Bible and for the writings of Mary Baker Eddy is a cause for much gratitude.

Excitement Recently , while reading "Reports of healing" in an issue of the The Christian Science Journal , I caught sight of something I had never fully understood before—the truth that all real life is of God and in God, purely spiritual, purely good. Comfort and inspiration of this kind bring the component of excitement to my reading of the periodicals, and I thank you.

Lifetime of healing The series of articles entitled "Mary Baker Eddy: a lifetime of healing" meant a great deal to me. First, it answered the question "How did Mrs.

Dear Editor, Over the years, in order to be obedient to Article VIII, Section 14, of the Manual of The Mother Church, I have tried to subscribe to the Christian Science periodicals (including The Christian Science Monitor ) regularly. That By-Law reads in part, "It shall be the privilege and duty of every member, who can afford it, to subscribe for the periodicals which are the organs of this Church.

New student I am a new student of Christian Science. When I don't quite follow what I am reading, I turn to my copies of The Christian Science Journal for help—and especially to the testimonies at the back of each issue.

Genesis The awakening interest in the book of Genesis has been apparent in several newsmagazines and in Bill Moyers's series on public television in the United States. I find this very exciting.

Dear Editors, Almost a year ago, a woman who lives across the street from our church met my husband and me in the parking lot one Sunday after the service to tell us her husband had passed on very suddenly. She was devastated.

God's Posse What a heartwarming account in The Christian Science Journal on the courageous ministry of God's Posse, working with young people in Roxbury, Boston! I gather from the interview that the desire of the Posse is that those they reach with their ministry of love will, in turn, go out to help others. Journal readers can support the Posse's work through their prayers—through the realization that God's child, as His image and reflection, has within him or her all the moral and spiritual resources to shut the mouths of the lions of immorality, violence, abuse, and criminality, as Daniel proved when claiming his innocence before God and men (see Dan.