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Complying with God's will

These days it seems necessary to have enforcement officers in many areas of modern life— and we don't just mean police officers! There are men and women whose job it is to enforce rules about such things as skateboarding, graffiti, garbage dumping, river pollution, and parking violations. Others are required to pursue offenders such as "deadbeat dads" who don't pay their child support and individuals who avoid paying their income tax.

Translating the Church's mission into practical objectives

To explain the genesis of the set of working priorities developed by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, the Editors recorded a conversation with Virginia S. Harris, Chairman of The Christian Science Board of Directors.

Applying for membership in The Mother Church

Recently the Editor of the Christian Science religious periodicals, William E. Moody , had the opportunity to discuss membership in The First Church of Christ, Scientist, as well as the whole process of applying for membership, with Olga Chaffee, Clerk of The Mother Church.

A spiritual view of stillness

Muriel Lebrun Marceau's early years as an actress involved her in the theater. Later in her life while watching a performance by Marcel Marceau, the famous French mime, she became aware of an element that she feels can lift theater from the entertaining to the inspirational.

Interview with a prison inmate

Through an exchange of letters, contributing editor Warren Bolon interviewed a man whose thinking and life have been radically changed through his study of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy . You were in prison for eighteen years before learning about Christian Science through reading Science and Health.

Theater—its uplifting, unifying role

Sue Pomeroy is the founder, director, and producer of Good Company Theatre Productions based in Brighton, England. She has directed many productions of classical and new work for major regional companies throughout England.

A Church active: an interview with the Federal Representative for the Committee on Publication

With this interview we continue to examine some of the challenges and opportunities facing Christian Scientists today from the perspective of someone involved directly with legal and legislative issues. Philip G.

The healing practice: learning to know the power of Christ

In a period when some students of Christian Science feel that the very active tempo of modern life makes it difficult for them to put some time aside each day for Christian Science practice, we found this interview, conducted for the periodicals by Pierre Pradervand, to be quite illuminating. His guest, Emery Tazuila, is from Zaire who has been employed for many years in one of Switzerland's largest chemical plants.

The time for thinkers has come

In her slow, deep, and deliberate honeyed voice, writer and poet Maya Angelou says that she does not "think fast" at all. What this versatile woman is doing with her life, she says, is taking both the rough and sweet experiences and slowly, slowly mulling them over for meaning and worth.

Coming into their own: women in the ministry

The role of women in the Christian Church has been the subject of much controversy in recent years. Different church bodies have wrestled with whether women should be ordained as members of the clergy.