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Illustrations from The Flaming Fire Illustrated Bible To Translate the Bible is a formidable task, but almost as formidable is the thought of illustrating all 36,665 of its verses. The Flaming Fire Illustrated Bible Project aims to do just that.

It's Monday morning . As I sit down at my desk, I notice that the office could really use a good cleaning.

One day along a hot and dusty road in Zimbabwe there appeared before me a group of barefoot, smiling children, white teeth flashing in contrast to dark skin. One said, simply, "My name is Loveletter.

I'VE never been an envious person, but the winter of 2001 pushed my typical have-and-let-have temperament to the breaking point. It seemed that everywhere I looked, friends were buying new cars, remodeling kitchens, and trading juicy tips from their burgeoning stock portfolios.

I'm standing on the shore of a small island tucked away in the corner of a remote Canadian wilderness lake. My friend and I have come by canoe, some 40 miles by paddle and portage, to be watching now on this special spot as the sun rises.

The notes poured over me, sweet and mellow, echoing with a resonance that raised goosebumps on my arms. This music, mostly improv, was, in a word, exquisite.

Sometimes it seemed like I was dealing with little more than a stable of quirky, moody authors. As a copywriter for a small publishing company, I guess I got used to their occasional flare-ups and irrational behavior.

I was in college and had come home to Connecticut for Thanksgiving. As always, my mother had planned the meal down to the last detail.

Mary Baker Eddy's church design encompasses institutions of higher learning. In 1904, she provided for the formation of Christian Science organizations at universities and colleges, and her Church Manual gives the green light for those CSOs to sponsor lectures by members of the Board of Lectureship.

When branch churches have good relationships with groups in the community, it can often lead to successful lectures. Lecture chairman David Jackson, at the Christian Science Society in Merrill, Wisconsin, discovered this recently when arranging a lecture-workshop conducted by Board of Lectureship member Cynthia Neely, who is also now serving as President of The Mother Church.