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When my brothers and I were in grade school, each of us received an award for perfect attendance. As I think about it: 3 boys x 6 years = 18 school years without an absence.

Talk to someone battling illness or disease who's decided to turn away from medicine and pursue alternative forms of health care, and you'll likely hear something about the need to attend to "the whole person. " Call it "spirit" or "soul," mental or spiritual well-being, but there's an insatiable yearning for wholeness that demands more than just physical treatment.

A few years ago I was in a Christian Science nursing facility, floundering in my effort to understand what makes life worth living. My husband and many of my friends had passed on.

The public dialogue continues on the power of prayer to benefit health. No doubt, many bring to the debate preconceived notions about whether or not there is a God and individual views on the efficacy of prayer.

GOD AND HEALTH . A lot of people are thinking about the connection.

Dear Friends: It's good to write to you again. The last letter I wrote to you, in June 2003, was entitled "See you in Berlin!" Since 2003 Annual Meeting of The Mother Church & Conference in Berlin, Boston, and on the World Wide Web, much good has been happening.

THEY WERE NO LONGER WELCOME in their own church—this was now clear. It was a Sunday morning in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

WHEN MEMBERS of the Christian Science Society in Pune, India decided to hold a public talk on spirituality and health, they felt sure that people in their community would be interested. "In my interactions, I've been seeing a growing desire for spirituality," says Jeanette Lopes, clerk of the Pune society.

Ann Wagner Pendleton is a media consultant from Los Angeles, California. In this article she describes her spiritual journey and the way in which Science and Health answers many questions she's had about spirituality from the time she was a young girl.

EVERYBODY LOVES a superhero! Here's proof: an online survey reported that boys' number one costume choice for 2003's Halloween season wasn't Harry Potter; it was the Hulk.   The Christian Science Monitor, October 16, 2003.