Articles

" AS A CHILD I GREW UP HERE , and this fountain was my playground," Jacqueline Woodley said, gesturing beyond the long reflecting pool beside her. "I threw my little coins in this water right here where we stand.

THINK OF IT AS A CHORAL COLLAGE . Violin.

"How many of you have had healings that haven't yet been published" in the Christian Science periodicals? A few hundred hands shoot up. One hand for almost everyone attending a workshop on "Embracing the Christian Science Periodicals," held June 6 in the Extension of The Mother Church and conducted by Barbara Vining and Brian Talcott, who had traveled around the United States giving this workshop.

Among The New By-Laws that appeared in the sixth edition of the Manual of The Mother Church, published in 1897, was this: "No member of this Church shall use written formulas, or permit his patients or his students to use them as auxiliaries to teaching Christian Science, or for healing the sick. Whatever is requisite for either is contained in the books of the Discover and Founder of Christian Science; and no other authority is needed, and no other will be sought or used, by the loyal Christian Scientist.

1. Working with Bible scholar Galen Goldsmith meant catching up with her by e-mail when she was "sitting on the marble floor of the Biblical Pontifical institute in Rome during a break of the international Meeting of the Society for Biblical Literature.

Keeping abreast of the times these days is like being in a footrace with a bullet train! Maybe you know the feeling of finally mastering a new technology only to discover that it's already out-of-date. But while technology changes, the Science of Christ doesn't.

LOOKING AT A PHOTO TAKEN DURING A TRIP to visit our family in China two years ago brought back happy memories and a Bible verse that helped me. On our third day there, I chose this as my inspirational theme for the day, "This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it" ( Ps.

"WHAT WILL YOU DO NEXT?" As a college senior, that's a question I'm asked frequently. The truth is, I don't know yet.

MY LIFE, AS I KNEW IT, WAS OVER. After 15 years of honorable service in the United State Army, a military court martial convicted and sentenced me to life in prison.

THE MOMENT WE BEGIN TO THINK SOMEONE is better than we are, or inferior, we set ourselves up for less-than-happy feelings. I remember the overwhelming anger I felt when I was ten after something happened at home that confirmed, in my mind, what I had felt for some time—that my parents favored my younger brother.