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AS MY FELLOW EDITORS on the Journal team can attest, I've been beating my 20-somethings drum for a while now. I suppose you could say that the idea for this feature sprang, at least in part, from my own selfish desire to hear from my peers.

TURNING TO GOD FOR HEALING IS NATURAL in Christian Science. But what if our prayers appear to go unanswered? We might ask ourselves, "Just what am I really praying for? Are my prayers focused just for healing? Or do I yearn to understand God better and to demonstrate the spiritual relationship that I have with Him?" In the preface of Science and Health, Mary Baker Eddy wrote, "In the spirit of Christ's charity,—as one who 'hopeth all things, endureth all things,' and is joyful to bear consolation to the sorrowing and healing to the sick,—she commits these pages to honest seekers for Truth.

HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED HOW, in everyday life, there often seems to be a push on people to be conventional, to conform? The pressure to think exactly as everyone else thinks is so prevalent that it's sometimes amusing. People come from such different backgrounds, yet we often wear similar fashions in clothing, speak the same way, and do the same things.

A TRUE EDUCATOR HAS A LOT TO TEACH. Not just in the classroom — which provides the obvious outlet — but more particularly to those of us who have long since hung up our book bags and turned in our locker keys.

O Christian Scientist, thou of the church of the new-born; awake to a higher and holier love for God and man; put on the whole armor of Truth; rejoice in hope; be patient in tribulation, — that ye may go to the bed of anguish, and look upon this dream of life in matter, girt with a higher sense of omnipotence; and behold once again the power of divine Life and Love to heal and reinstate man in God's own image and likeness, having "one Lord, one faith, one baptism. " — MARY BAKER EDDY | THE PEOPLE'S IDEA OF GOD.

THIS MIGHT SOUND FAMILIAR TO YOU. I looked out from the podium at the mere handful of participants in our small-church-with-the-big-auditorium just before announcing the "Good evening" part of our Wednesday testimony meeting—and my heart sank.

This article is part of a series that looks at various English translations of the Bible. WHICH CONTEMPORARY English Bible translation is best to use? Various faith communities answer that question differently.

David Barker has always loved the Bible, but talking with students in the former communist state of Georgia during the time of perestroika gave him newfound appreciation for his favorite book. After David expressed enthusiasm about sharing something that had been forbidden to his audience for more than 70 years, the students replied, Forbidden? "If we are forbidden to keep or read the Bible," they said, "that is enough to make us do so!" A Christian Science practitioner from Barnstaple, England, David tackles the subject of fear in the Bible in this month's issue (p.

WE HAD BEEN PROMISED A THREE-BEDROOM FLAT IN LAGOS. The landlord had collected our money.

I live in Hamburg, Germany and my friends at school call me "Jojo. " I enjoy horseback riding, playing the guitar, listening to my CDs, and recently I've gotten pretty interested in studying the ancient Maya Indians.