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IT'S NATURAL TO WANT PRAYER TO BE EFFECTIVE. Whether you're praying for someone else or for yourself, when you sit down to pray you're hoping for healing.

THERE IS AN OLD CHINESE PROVERB, "Open a book and it will open you. " And that, I must say, is exactly what happened to me.

ONE DAY, WHILE TEACHING IN THE TEMPLE, Jesus was interrupted by a group of scribes and Pharisees, members of the religious hierarchy. They had brought with them a woman who had been caught in the act of committing adultery (see John 8:1–11).

When Christian Scientists shop in bookstores, the words of the Manual of The Mother Church, Article VIII, Section 12, might well come to mind: "A member of this Church shall not patronize a publishing house or bookstore that has for sale obnoxious books" ( p. 44 ).

1. Christian Science practitioner and teacher David Robertson said he was struck by the international nature of the early Christian church as described in the book of Acts.

I HAD MANY GOOD REASONS for hating the American Midwest, or so I thought. Severe weather, minimal city services, decaying infrastructure, thriving casinos.

AS A CHAPLAIN CANDIDATE FOR THE UNITED STATES ARMY, I attended chaplain school at Fort Jackson in South Carolina last summer. The six weeks of instruction were part of the final stage of military training necessary for becoming an active duty Army chaplain.

The Journal receives an extraordinary number of contributions. However, because of space constraints, we just can't publish them all.

CONFLICT . Without it you can't make art— at least according to Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, who famously declared, ".

IN THE COURSE OF OUR daily lives we all face issues that require a quick resolution. I've learned in Christian Science that by turning in prayer to the scientific understanding of God as the divine Principle of all that exists, I can expect to receive divine direction in any situation.