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CHURCH CAN MEAN MANY THINGS TO MANY PEOPLE. Some may think of it as simply a place to go once or more a week to participate in worship services with others who are likeminded.

A FEW WEEKS AFTER THE SEPTEMBER 11 attacks in the United States, I was talking to my friend Jamal Gabobe in a cafe in Seattle. We were trying to understand the implications of these attacks for ordinary people in the United States.

I Had Never Felt Anything Like It before—an all-embracing love, so sweetly close, so deeply compassionate and uncondemning that nothing else was real. This tender Presence hit me a few days into a course in Primary class instruction in Christian Science as I was praying alone in my room.

HOW DO WE KNOW GOD EXISTS? The question has been very much in public thought lately, with several books on the bestseller list arguing against the existence of God. So how is it that in the face of so much turmoil and suffering in the world, Christian Science can insist not only that God exists supreme, all-powerful, always present, but that there is a way for the yearning heart to prove it? There is an old joke about a sidewalk preacher giving a sermon in a downtown park.

1. Scott Preller has always had an abiding love of the Bible, which led him to earn a Master of Divinity degree in Biblical studies from Boston University.

Mrs. Streby, My First-Grade Teacher, would have been perfectly justified in scolding me.

I Haven't Always Found It Easy To learn that I don't have to use human will to make my life turn out right. However, especially in the last few years, I've discovered that God's will is always good and dependable, whereas human will a lot of times takes me in the wrong direction.

A Lot Of Times I walk away from my Sunday School class with some inspiration that I can take with me the rest of the week, especially when things get hectic. I've found that the subject of the week in the Bible Lesson usually relates to something going on in my life, and definitely at school.

When Jana Jae Was A Toddler, a tiny, 1/8 size violin was slipped into her hands, and a music career was born. With Julliard-trained parents, a grandfather who was a champion fiddler, and a pianist grandmother, Ms.

Mary Baker Eddy's Comments that refer to herself and her writings in the Christian Science periodicals are not historic relics, but very relevant to today's Journal readers and writers. Here are a few examples: In 1891, she observed that at one point the Journal had mentioned her so frequently that it became "ridiculous.