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"We're about delivering transformation," explains Jeff Sinatra, The Mother Church Reading Room Librarian and Manager of the Reading Room Activities area. "If you take a look at some of the retail books on the cutting edge today, they're saying, 'Stores don't just sell things.

Looking back A conversation in Boston It's early June, 1889, late spring in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood. A Bostonian and a friend from New York have met unexpectedly at the corner of Boylston Street and Massachusetts Avenue.

"I'd like to congratulate you on your academic work. " Congratulate me? Were these words directed to me? In fact they were.

"When you pray to God," says community activist Marjorie Moore, "get your shovel ready. Because there's always something to do.

"It was during the famine in Ethiopia back in 1984–85," David Orth-Moore explains. "I'd just gotten out of college.

I came out of university believing that countries like mine were diseased. They call it developing country syndrome, in which government corruption and mismanagement weaken the institutions needed to build a strong and stable society.

I was a teenager doing summer volunteer work with children in the inner city. One day, cleaning up after a busy day, I referred to the children as "underprivileged.

On the quiet Stockholm side street of Eriksbergsgatan, located near an area of town otherwise known for its lively social scene—fine restaurants, upscale shopping, and Sweden's Royal Dramatic Theatre—is what seems like an endless row of early20th-century stone buildings. The first time I walked along this street, about two and a half years ago, I was headed to building number 10, where I knew I'd find First Church of Christ, Scientist—or as the sign that welcomed me in Swedish said, "Forsta Kristi Vetenskaparkyrkan.

BECAUSE of war in my homeland of Angola, my family and I fled in 1961 to what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo. We lived there for more than 25 years.

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