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COMING THIS NOVEMBER, for the first time in 76 years, a new Hymnal Supplement! This 2008 supplement contains new inspiring and healing hymns written and arranged by Christian Scientists today, as well as hymn texts from the current Hymnal set to contemporary music. We hope you will enjoy singing these hymns as much as we have loved collecting and publishing them.

Last January I Arrived in Guadalajara, Mexico — a lively, bustling city of four million inhabitants where city buses scream down the streets and mariachi music floats through the night air. Where silence is precious.

Grew Up In a Christian Science Family. We always went to church, even though we lived way out in the country in northwest Connecticut, quite a distance from our in little church group in neighboring Millerton, New York.

Every nurse has a unique story to tell. Many of these stories began, as did Betty Jo Hunt's, when she saw a need and wanted to help.

THE BY-LAW "CHRISTIAN SCIENCE NURSE" in the Manual of The Mother Church ( p. 49 ) opens with the words "A member of The Mother Church.

1908. WHAT AN EVENTFUL YEAR FOR MARY BAKER EDDY! In late January she had moved from Concord, New Hampshire, her home for nearly two decades, to Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

Mary Baker Eddy uses the word "nurse" only a few times in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. In one fascinating passage, she describes the qualities of an ideal nurse in some detail.

When I want to address a challenge spiritually, I tend to take one of two approaches. I would describe the first as a sort of knee-jerk reaction: I immediately dash over some Bible passages, or jot down some concepts that I've learned in church or in Sunday School.

Throughout my years of spiritual study, I've often read about and heard others speak of the Holy Spirit in relation to the Holy Trinity—God (or Father), Son, and Holy Ghost. My own concept of the Trinity came mostly from Christian friends who would liken it to an egg—God being the shell, the Holy Spirit being the whites, and the Son being the yolk.

Love the angel's reply when Mary, soon to be mother of Jesus, asked how she could possibly bear a child, being a virgin. "The Holy Spirit will come upon you," the angel assured her, "and the power of the Most High will overshadow you" ( Luke 1:35, New International Version).