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1. Recently Genelle Austin-Lett was discussing with her Bible study group the Nativity story, told in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke.

OREGON, US : Nearing the end of a day of skiing in deep snow high on a ridge in the Siskiyou mountains, my two companions and I search for a spot to camp. My parka hood is drawn tight against a cutting winter wind that drives snow pellets into my face.

I SPENT THE FIRST TWO AND A HALF DECADES OF MY LIFE like a lost sheep that had wandered from his shepherd. I had looked everywhere for happiness and meaning in life.

When I woke up on Thanksgiving Day in 1994 , I knew it wasn't going to be only a holiday of gratitude and celebration. It would also be a pivotal day for me.

Every day we are confronted with the headlines : Escalating Economic Gloom Ahead. Homes and jobs lost.

I often wonder where I'll find enough time in the day to pray for myself, let alone for the world. Or whether praying for the resolution of global issues such as poverty and violence is too daunting a task.

I subscribe to two newspapers—a well–regarded local paper and The Christian Science Monitor. Each has its strengths.

I was raised on The Christian Science Monitor. Or, perhaps more accurately, it took an active role in raising me.

How do you respond to local, national, and international news? While answers to that question will undoubtedly vary, it's been said that, love it or hate it, you simply can't ignore the news. And why would you want to? News is the instrument for disseminating information important to the public.

When Mary Baker Eddy decided that her Church needed to publish a daily newspaper, she offered little explanation as to why. In her August 8, 1908, order to the Board of Trustees of The Christian Science Publishing Society, her certainty of the Monitor's importance was unmistakable, even though details were lacking: "It is my request that you start a daily newspaper at once, and call it the Christian Science Monitor.