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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.

EVERYDAY DIVINITY? Sure! I see evidence of it each day when I apply the teachings of Christian Science to all aspects of my life. Science and Health uses the terms Life, Truth, Love, Principle, Soul, Spirit, Mind as synonyms for God.

"YOU KNOW," I SAID, "if we're going to have this kind of confrontational relationship .

ONE DAY this past winter, I was driving to work after school. I had been following a black Lincoln Town Car for some time, and I noticed the driving was careless.

SOME YEARS AGO, I was driving on a busy freeway when my car suddenly lost power. It was several miles to the next exit, so I punched the flashers on and decided to drift as far as possible.

THE THEORY CALLED THE CARTESIAN SPLIT has been foundational to the cultural walls that continue to separate science from religion. This theory is named after the 17th-century philosopher Descartes, who believed that the human mind is separate (or split) from the physical body and from the material universe.