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My initial encounter with Christian Science was in prison, where I went to a Christian Science church service just to get out of my cell. At the time I was serving a life sentence for a crime I had not committed, although I had engaged in other criminal activity from an early age.

It was a Sunday morning. I arrived at church early to take my post as usher, ready to greet newcomers as well as our regular attendees.

It was during my second or third consecutive reading of the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, that I noticed the bottle of pills I had depended on to control nightmares had gone unused. I couldn’t remember the last time I had taken a pill, yet the nightmares had ended.

Six years ago, a very special event in my life made me think more deeply about the topic of equal rights for women and men. This event was the birth of our first daughter.

Is there a way that divisions in the world can be healed? Yes!  In Genesis, chapter one, God creates light and divides it from the darkness. Then He creates a firmament to “divide the waters from the waters” ( verse 6 ).

While I was praying about viruses, I asked God to give me a fresh view. The word host came to mind.

I sat alone at one point, praying something like, “Wow, I honestly thought I’d do okay at this parenting thing, but God, I feel like I am messing up and I really, really need Your guidance right now to help these kids. ” In the Bible, the Apostle Paul said, “When I am weak, then am I strong” ( II Corinthians 12:10 ).

As a teenager , I was working above a new display of soda pop at my job in a grocery store when some bottles exploded, sending shards of glass into my face and eyes. Soon after, I sat alone in a hospital emergency room waiting for my mother to arrive to authorize medical treatment because I was a minor.

Mary Baker Eddy describes how she felt after being healed of life-threatening injuries from a fall on the ice: “Being was beautiful, its substance, cause, and currents were God and His idea. I had touched the hem of Christian Science” ( Retrospection and Introspection, p.

At The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, the Office of the Publisher’s Agent for Mary Baker Eddy’s Writings regularly receives inquiries and suggestions related to translations of this author’s books. Also received are inquiries about various non-English translations of the Bible.