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Message for the ages

Understanding the Word of God frees us to know our spiritual, true selfhood.

Barbara Pettis interviewed by the Journal’s Roger Gordon

From the January 2012 issue of The Christian Science Journal

The Merrimack River in Massachusetts

Curran Kelleher

We’ve probably all been there. We’re reading the Bible and we ask: How does this relate to my life? If this is the Word of God, shouldn’t it mean something to me?

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Letter from Editor

"Revision"

Mary Trammell, Editor in Chief | January 2012

Letter to Editor

Letters

By Frank C. "Pat" Daniels, Jr., Dan Ziskind, Lorie Gratis Harris, Phil Scala, Brenda Evers, Henry Musa Abdu | January 2012

Q&A

In raising the dead, they return to our state, do they not?

By John Quincy Adams | January 2012

Q&A

How can I reconcile that statement with the third tenet of Christian Science, which acknowledges God’s forgiveness of sin?

By David C. Kennedy | January 2012

Q&A

Why do we call certain things "bad" and other things "good"?

By Elise Moore | January 2012

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By Karen Sevaly | January 2012

Branch Church News

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By Suzanne Connolly | January 2012

Branch Church News

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By Andrew Wilson | January 2012

Article

As a youth-focused lecturer

By Josh Niles | January 2012

Q&A

Could you please talk about handling resistance to Christian Science as a part of treatment?

By Suzanne Riedel | January 2012

Notice

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By John Sparkman | January 2012

Interview

Message for the ages

Barbara Pettis interviewed by the Journal’s Roger Gordon | January 2012

Poem

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Article

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Article

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Article

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Poem

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By Suzanne Goewert | January 2012

Testimony

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By Patty Wilson | January 2012

Testimony

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By Bonnie Andersen | January 2012

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