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When the Christian Science Board of Lectureship was established by Mary Baker Eddy in 1898 it consisted of five English-speaking members, all living in the United States. This lecture year (July 1, 2008, to June 30, 2009) there are 54 lecturers living in 18 countries throughout the world.

THE COMMUTER TRAIN FROM Darien, Connecticut, to Grand Central Station was right on time. I got on board and settled into an aisle seat.

WHEN I THINK TO DIFFERENT STAGES of my life, I usually think about the books I was reading at the time. I've loved reading since the day I picked up Charlotte's Web at the age of eight.

Everything that my husband, Lynde, wrote happened as he tells it. We had two small children and we were completely renovating our home at the time—from the foundation to the roof.

I WAS SITTING ON A BOULDER IN THE MIDDLE OF A FAST-MOVING river, taking in the beauty of the mountains and forest around me, when an unexpected thought hit me: my wife had found someone else. I had just spent three glorious summer days with several friends climbing and hiking in Colorado's Rocky Mountains, scaling three peaks in an exhausting and exhilarating trek.

On a visit to Brazil's capital, noted for its modern curving architecture, a friend pointed out another feature of Brasilia's design. Traffic circles, or roundabouts, encourage traffic flow through merging instead of stopping.

Years ago, a woman called me in tears. She said she was facing "severe challenges.

There are many phrases particular to Australian-English, and one of my favorites is "good on you," or more accurately, "good on-ya. " It's used when someone achieves something or does a good deed, and is comparable to the British "well done" or the American "good for you.

HUMANITY YEARNS FOR HEALTH. As Mary Baker Eddy noted, ".

The author talks about dispersing "the mist of dualistic thinking—that Spirit and matter both exist" and seeing that "the universe is entirely Spirit-created."