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An African professor at Amherst College shares how the healing through Christian Science of an "incurable" disease led him to help grow a branch church in his native Nigeria. WHEN ROWLAND ABIODUN LOOKS back on his healing of diagnosed leukemia, he can't help but recall the casual strolls he took past a Christian Science church in Canada during the late 1960s.

November 2008 marks the centennial year of the establishment of Christian Science nursing as part of the Church's healing activities. The Manual of The Mother Church by Mary Baker Eddy states: "Christian Science Nurse.

CONSIDER A SITUATION IN WHICH AN AVALANCHE buried the mouth of a cave you were in. Well, you might find a match useful.

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.