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My son and I are homeschooling buddies. We spend our mornings roaming from desk to couch to kitchen table.

Calling someone a Samaritan today is generally considered a compliment—an indication that a person has done a good deed. But among Jews in Jesus' time, it would have been considered an insult.

The use of parables as an effective means of illustration didn't start with Jesus. The English word parable derives from the Greek parabole, which comes from a verb meaning "to throw alongside," or "to liken.

It was 1977. I was in a deep depression, and I didn't even recognize the symptoms.

PART I—AT THE BEACH When I was growing up in the San Francisco area, my family often spent weekends and vacations at the beach. Now I live on the opposite coast, but my love for the beauty of the beach has moved across the country with me.

After a rousing Annual Meeting, individual discussion sessions in the afternoon, and a reception in the Hall of Ideas of The Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity attended by The Christian Science Board of Directors and other officers of The Mother Church, people around the globe used the Internet to join a standing-room-only audience in The Mother Church Sunday School for the centennial celebration of Christian Science organizations on college campuses. Dave Hohle, Manager of College and University Activities for The Mother Church, made clear that it was a live, global meeting.

They came by the thousands, literally, and from countries around the globe—Argentina and Australia, Belgium and Brazil, Canada and Cuba, Poland and Peru, United Arab Emirates and Uruguay—and many points in between. Some came alone, others in groups.

When Mary Baker Eddy experienced the spiritual breakthrough that led to her being healed of life-threatening injuries, she might have kept her insight to herself. But on her spiritual journey, she had known and had seen much suffering, and her innate compassion put her onto a different path.

It's eleven o'clock on a Friday night in Des Moines, Iowa, and at Reggie's Place, things are still in full swing. Teenagers sit and chat—or chow.

In Australia , where I live, the seasons are reversed because we live below the equator. So summer comes in December.