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A big “aha moment” came to me one summer while reading through the Gospels on one of my days off from my job at a summer camp. I was thoroughly struck with the connection between faith and the Christ.

When my wife passed on, I felt a terrible sense of loneliness. We had been married for over 58 years, and to say that I missed her would not begin to express how I felt.

I enjoyed a career in real estate for many years, in which my daily study of the Christian Science Bible Lesson played a big part.   At one time, one of my clients found a house that she felt would be much more suitable than the apartment she owned.

Many people around the world are striving to be better neighbors relative to the environment—from the simple act of not littering, to using less fossil fuel for transportation, to the development of advanced technologies for energy conservation. But while individuals and organizations work to improve the physical environment, there is a great demand to bring a mental purification to all that we do.

The cover of the Christian Science Quarterly last summer announced, “.  .

While my husband and I were taking in a movie recently,  it seemed certain that a huge butterfly was about to land on our noses. We ducked.

Early in my freshman year at college I stopped attending activities of the Protestant church in which I had grown up. I had no special complaint, but I was looking for something more.

My father was a traditional doctor who healed people using herbs. Despite my requests, he refused to show me how he did his work.

Just before I graduated from high school , my father and I had a heart-to-heart talk about my future. He told me that I wouldn’t inherit anything from him in the form of money, land, or property.

That’s a question we’ve undoubtedly all heard before. While it can be delivered with an accusatory or confrontational undertone, the question itself is a provocative one that we all must grapple with at some point in our life.