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Freedom is possible, imperative, sustainable In response to the Journal's talk with Peter Ackerman about nations and their struggles for freedom, we asked three Christian Science practitioners and teachers to offer their thoughts and experiences as they look out on the world. Since each comes from a different part of the globe, each one took a different approach to the subject.

Over the last six months, momentum continues to build from the 2002 Annual Meeting & Conference of The Church of Christ, Scientist. The meeting explored three overarching messages: the universality of Christian Science: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures as a resource for everyone: and Mary Baker Eddy's design for a Church to respond to today's demand for spiritual answers.

When I Was Eight, I lived in Angola, where the war for independence was about to begin. I studied in a religious school, and had a great spiritual hunger.

In April of 1983, three people who had learned about Christian Science in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Zaire, met at a family gathering in Angola. They soon began to hold sunday services and Wednesday testimony meetings in a private home.

The 1950s were a decade in which much of the world was recovering from years of war. Even so, some steps of solid, political, and technical progress were made.

Last month's segment of this series on the history of The Herald of Christian Science, Which will be celebrating its 100th anniversary in April of this year, described events leading up to the production of the Spanish edition of the Herald. Just as the Spanish language is spoken in very diverse countries, Portuguese has become part of cultures where explorers from Portugal traveled—in Africa, South America, and other places as well.

A Little Over A Year Ago, I was the chair of a governing board in a rural community. One evening, a man came before the board to air a grievance.

• Creationism contends that an intelligent, divine designer created the earth, its current life forms, and the universe. Creation events, according to this theory, were one-time events and are not taking place today.

Sparks fly in the 1960 movie Inherit the Wind Inherit the Wind, (Lomitas Productions, Inc. 1960)  when evolution confronts creationism in an explosive battle of polar-opposite views about the origins of life.

Why Not "Jubilation"? Because this collection of music is named after Jubal, "the father of all such as handle the harp and organ," according to the book of Genesis in the Bible. See Gen.