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After his father was healed of long-term stomach pains as a result of reading Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, Martyn Auret, then ten years old, was packed off to Christian Science Sunday School in Johannesburg, South Africa, every week. What he learned there stayed with him.

The world was coming to their doorstep. So they put out a welcome mat.

Marla is in the fifth grade this fall. On sunny mornings, the 11-year-old wearing an ankle-length dress and white bonnet pedals her bicycle down State Road 19 to the spot where it suddenly veers right.

Terrorism. Say the word and people tend to think of death and danger, whether in Jerusalem, Baghdad, New York City, Madrid, Oklahoma City, or some other location.

We were right in the middle of lunch when our math teacher told us to get away from the windows. We wondered what was going on.

I Was 15 the first time I was allowed to go out with my friends at night. That night was also the first time I tried drugs.

Linda Slaughter and her husband, Chris, hadn't spent much time thinking about teenage rebellion before the older of their two children, Emily, started high school. "She'd always been happy and responsible," explained Linda, a retired businesswoman and now a full-time volunteer from Dallas, Texas.

It wasn't the response I was expecting. I'd been sharing the news of my first pregnancy with a group of colleagues when one of the women kidded, "It's a good thing they start out as babies.

A Woman who occupies a position of respect and authority—no, it's not a common occurrence in the Bible. Most of the leaders are men.

My second-grade daughter and I loved to do science experiments together while I was homeschooling her. One memorable project involved understanding how clouds can affect light.