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When my brother-in-law and his wife lived in Saudi Arabia a few years back, they wanted to attend a Protestant church there, the particular denomination not being of great importance. They lived in a compound that was virtually a city unto itself separate from the general Saudi population and included several Christian churches.

AS CHILD GROWING UP in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, I was raised in the Catholic church. While my interest grew in the life of its saints, God still remained unknown to me.

The  nearly 28,000 letters and manuscripts and more than 800 reminiscences that make up part of The Mary Baker Eddy Library's collections give us a window into the life and ideas of Mary Baker Eddy and can help us to better understand her published writings. For example, we can turn to the collections for further insight into Mary Baker Eddy's deep love of the Lord's Prayer.

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.