Articles

What he was preaching was attitude . Not attitude of the variety of sullenness or hostility.

SACRED, YET SIMPLE . That was the goal when the American Bible Society (ABS) commissioned The New Testament in Today's English Version.

"At the time," says Lynn Jackson, "the practitioner's suggestion that I get a better sense of body only puzzled me. I thought, 'A better sense of body? Can't just be healed?' " But for Lynn, now a Christian Science practitioner and teacher herself, that suggestion proved invaluable—and not just because of the healing.

AS I TAUGHT, I tried to make eye contact with each of my students. Some drifted off to sleep, some seemed pleasantly attentive, and others looked as if they had swallowed Mexican jumping beans.

I LOVE ACTING. I wanted to participate in a play at my music school, in Hennef, Germany, and signed up for it.

My friend and I refer to it as my fight with the dog—the dog that lurked in the forest. But that's just our goofy way of describing the day last year when I crawled through a patch of poison oak in the woods behind my school.

I NEVER EXACTLY SAID YES TO HAVING A FAMILY. But I didn't say no either.

IT'S AN astonishing statement the prophet Isaiah made. "The wolf," he said, "also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.

IT HAD gotten to the point where I didn't even want to go to church. Faced with the challenge of a huge and nearly empty church building, our membership had grown increasingly contentious.

THE KINDS of calls I respond to as a volunteer chaplain with the county sheriff's department don't typically involve crimes of such severity. In fact, I'm mainly there for the officers—to provide support and a listening ear.