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You've been earnestly praying for physical healing, but healing seems to be taking longer than usual. Or you're a Christian Science practitioner who has a patient whose healing is delayed.

Whenever Pastor Billy Ray prays the blessing at the soup kitchen at Second Baptist Church in Evanston, Illinois, he says solemnly at the end, "and we ask these things in Jesus' name, and together we say Amen. " He sets it up so that everybody joins in a hearty "amen," but it's more than just a good way to finish up the grace.

Wanting to know why is a characteristic that has brought great progress to humanity. It is behind many useful inventions and discoveries.

I covered the First International Interdisciplinary Conference on The Science of Whole Person Healing last spring where members of the scientific and professional health-care community convened, and the common denominator was a quest to end suffering.  See "United in a quest to end suffering (through a change of thought)," Journal, June 2003, pp.

The 2003 Annual Meeting of The Mother Church & Conference was held in June in Berlin, Germany; Boston, Massachusetts; and on the Internet. Since then, participants have sent letters, e-mail, and faxes that tell of fresh inspiration and a recognition that spiritual ideas provide a meaningful response to challenges in their communities.

FUEL FOR YOUR SPIRITUAL JOURNEY Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures and I have been friends for a long time. From childhood it has been my spiritual guidebook.

Go to any large US city —or small town in the Midwest, even—and you probably won't have to look hard to find Latino immigrants speaking their native language. Whether they've immigrated from the northern reaches of the Texas-Mexico border or southern-most tip of Cape Horn, or the various Caribbean islands, many Latinos have brought with them an important piece of home: their faith.

It wasn't an easy time to be a Christian. Some 30 years after the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus, persecution of those preaching his message had become official Roman policy.

Generally speaking, a prophet is someone who foretells or predicts future events. These days, this could include people from all walks of life, such as parents who predict their children's futures based on the children's behavior.

When I was little my parents gave me a box of crayons and a coloring book. I thought my crayons were wonderful, all 16 of them.