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For me, the quintessential Bobby story goes something like this: I was in college and had just had one of those typical teenage arguments with my parents. They didn't approve of the way I was spending the money I'd earned and thought my interest in clothes indicated that I might be becoming too materialistic.

No, they aren't beauty parlors run by the Biblical patriarch. Rather, they are informal, grassroots, interfaith gatherings where people of different faiths—or no faith—can talk about Abraham as one figure who is shared by Christians, Jews, and Muslims, and use his life as a way of building up trust and communication among them.

Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land through the Five Books of Moses "Considering that the international language of travel has changed so frequently in the last 2,500 years — Greek, Latin, French, English, American English — and that the stories of the Bible have not changed at all, one could argue that for much of the Western world, those stories form a collective language. Certainly in the Middle East today, with so much suspicion and hostility, a common interest in the Bible can be an immediate source of kinship, much stronger than nationality, denomination, age, or wealth" (p.

WHEN I WAS A SENIOR MANAGER over a large division of engineers working on the Hubble Space Telescope project, I covered two jobs that required more than my full-time attention. One particular week, I was also organizing and attending a demanding two-day seminar, as well as participating in a series of interviews for a promotion I was seeking.

A FRIEND OF MINE was given some daffodil bulbs in a bowl with gravel and a bit of water. She didn't know how to take care of these bulbs so she put the bowl on the windowsill, thinking that they needed sun.

What if you've fallen and you think you might have sprained something — possibly broken a bone? You're in a lot of pain. What do you do next? Prayer may not be the first solution most people think of, but for me prayer is a practical, effective way of dealing with everything from life's uncertainties to troubled relationships to accidents — and even illness.

Many people today are asking: Is there something beyond what I can see? Is there a higher power? Who or what is God? Questions like these make me think of a joke I heard years ago when I worked in an employee benefits consulting firm. I was surrounded by actuaries— professionals who use statistics and the laws of probability to calculate insurance premiums and pension benefits.

From Camagüey, Cuba: I have become a faithful listener of your Christian Science program. A friend told me about the Herald program and lent me Science and Health.

The universal message of the Christian Science periodicals is reaching all kinds of people around the world. Here are some of the things they are saying.

From Fargo, North Dakota, US: I am a lifelong Lutheran who has subscribed to the Sentinel for the past several years. I look forward to receiving your publication each week, and usually read it cover to cover.