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I WAS BORN AND RAISED in southern California, back in the gentle '50s. My family's roots in Christian Science went back several generations to the 1880s.

It was a frightening situation. My daughter, a college student, had stopped eating.

In recent years, a spiritual revolution has been occurring around the world. For example, in various African nations, opportunities to distribute Science and Health have increased, with healing results.

Mary Baker Eddy had a strong desire to help people achieve freedom—from illness, oppression, lack, suffering of any kind. She knew well that the human heart, no matter what its circumstances, longs for freedom.

The metal slide bolt sounded loudly as the door locked behind me. The austere setting included two steel slabs that folded down from the wall with thin mattresses, no blankets, no pillows, and a metal toilet a few feet away.

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In my work for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, I confront abuses of human rights on a daily basis. I live in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where I coordinate human rights training programs for national officials and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs).

Imagine spending three years as one of Jesus' most intimate followers—being asked to join him as he raises a young girl from the dead, witnessing an amazing mountaintop transformation during which he talks with ancient prophets, praying with him in the hours before he is captured and crucified. Now, decades after that crucifixion and subsequent resurrection, accounts of Jesus' ministry abound.

Imagine traveling across an ocean to an event where you'll meet children from different parts of the world. Some of the kids have traveled as far as you have.

From Omaha, Nebraska, US, to Fellbach, Germany, from Sherman Oaks, California, US, to London, England, came the word that summed up 2003 Annual Meeting of The Mother Church & Conference: universality. "I love the diversity," exclaimed Natalie Zdan of Omaha.