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1. A career in college teaching and international diplomacy took Jeremy Carper to Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Latin America before he entered the public healing practice of Christian Science in 2005.

In 2007, the Christian Science Board of Directors announced in the Journal the introduction of a new program allowing licensing of the Cross and Crown seal. This program is directed toward Christian Science branch churches and societies, Christian Science Reading Rooms, Committees on Publication, and Christian Science organizations at colleges and universities so all of these entities may represent genuine Christian Science services, publications, and products in their local jurisdictions.

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.