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A letter in 1900 from Mary Baker Eddy to William P. McKenzie, a trustee of The Christian Science Publishing Society, first thanks him for the Twentieth Century New Testament he’d sent her, noting both advantages and disadvantages of the new translation, as well as her general preference for the “grandeur of climax” in the Authorized (King James) Version of the Bible.

Gabriel Vahanian was a man of faith whose critique, The Death of God: The Culture of Our Post-Christian Era, was considered a forerunner of a movement to save Christianity from obsolescence. A churchgoing Presbyterian throughout his life, he wasn’t endorsing Nietzsche’s “death of God” philosophy.

Thursday mornings find us gathered in Marilyn’s family room for our weekly Bible study. We’ve been reading the New Testament together for over two years and are finally reading the book of Revelation.

The quest of physical science is to try to understand nature, to answer questions such as, “How do things work?” “What gives ruby its color?” Great leaps forward have occurred, but deep mysteries remain. One is the explanation of the heaviness of things.

Like dessert, we tend to save gratitude for last— after we get “results. ” But gratitude isn’t a payoff—the reward we give back to God for bestowing on us the result we’re expecting.

There’s something within human consciousness that causes people to feel entitled to all that is good—no strings attached. In the very small world of royalty, individuals born into wealth and position are simply legally entitled by birthright to receive, rather than to earn, their wealth and position.

While praying for the women in a documentary, a writer realizes that the men need to be prayed for, too.

A teacher learns to see through the “masks” that come to her door—of thought.

We can trust God to help us find the right home.

How do we see perfection—through the medium of the human eye, or through spiritual understanding?