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On March 3, 1903, Mary Baker Eddy wrote to the Christian Science Board of Directors, suggesting that it "would be a good thing" to have one of her hymns "read and sung about every Sunday" in The Mother Church. During Mrs.

1. Mike Hamilton served as a US Navy chaplain before launching into a teaching career in the Religion and Philosophy department of Principia College in lllinois.

"GLIMPSES OF GRACE!" I love the title of this series in the Journal of photographs, paintings, and prose meditations. And a glimpse of grace is exactly what I experienced last spring when visiting the North Carolina property of Carl Sandburg, the American poet, writer, and historian who lived from 1878 to 1967.

EVERY DAY, IN LITTLE WAYS, I try to make the world a better place by loving others. Awhile back, as I was going about my normal day-to-day activities at work, I began feeling guilty that my life was as good as it was.

As our team prepared a presentation for the Christian Science Board of Directors on possible locations in Latin America where they might be invited to travel to meet with branch church members and church attendees, the name Cuba stood out on the page as if in neon lights. Because of US government sanctions against the Cuban government for over 40 years, it had not occurred to us that such a meeting would be possible.

I WAS ABOUT SEVEN, and my brother four, when we started attending the Christian Science Sunday School in our own home. When I was thirteen, I went to live in La Habana with my grandmother.

It was 1952. We didn't practice any religion when my mother came down with cancer of the uterus.

OUR PLANE TOUCHED DOWN at José Martí airport. After deplaning, we each walked separately through a small, narrow immigration office.

On Sunday, June 1, the day before Annual Meeting 2008 convened, several events were held at the Church for everyone to attend. Here's a brief summary of the afternoon's inspiring activities.

THE CHRIST . What does this term mean? Many Christians may say, "That's easy—the Christ is the man Jesus, who walked the earth some 2,000 years ago.