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I was asked to chair a high-level, politically-charged working group in my company, a task I admit I approached with some trepidation. Our group quickly encountered a sticky problem.

During World War II, I was trained as a radio operator to serve as a communication link between the front and those in command. I was sent overseas to a replacement pool on the island of Leyte in the Philippines to await assignment.

Spirituality. It's a term used freely these days to describe a variety of practices that turn people away from a purely materialistic view of life.

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).