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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.

Before David's encounter with Goliath, he was a musician. In fact, he first came to the royal court to soothe King Saul's mental distress with the beautiful melodies of his harp.

" A tornado has been spotted two miles southwest of the Oklahoma City airport," the weather bulletin said. "It is moving toward the northeast at 25 miles per hour.

Persistence. It's a word that applies in many contexts.

Cindy Neely loves color. No, she isn't an artist.

"I've never been to a church service like that," says Harry Grayson, referring to a Wednesday evening meeting in May at his Park Avenue church on the Upper East Side (read upper income) of Manhattan. He and fellow members of Third Church of Christ, Scientist, New York City, turned adversity into generosity—and responded by helping their neighbors.

I was just relearning Spanish when my church began to hold Spanish-language services, and I became the soloist. One Sunday morning I woke up with a terrible case of the flu.

Hazel Corrin got the message. It proved to be a message that, in its own modest way, was like the calling that the Apostle Paul heard to go to Macedonia and share the good news of Christianity.