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FROM THE 2002 ANNUAL MEETING & CONFERENCE At the 2002 Annual Meeting & Conference of The Church of Christ, Scientist, participants embraced 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. Friends and members have been motivated by these ideas in their interactions with fellow seekers.

The 1930s were decade of politics and war as national boundaries were drawn and redrawn. Yet even during the arms races and turmoil, spiritual thinkers were watching and acting on behalf of a world in need.

"TO PROCLAIM THE UNIVERSAL ACTIVITY AND AVAILABILITY OF TRUTH"—MARY BAKER EDDY The 1930s. A time of financial instability in Europe and the United States, brought about by a depression that, for a while, seemed only to deepen.

At first, it was a random tinkling sound. Small hand bells, provided by the Salvation Army, were ringing on the Christian Science Plaza in response to a call from the City of Boston for bells to peal for 11 minutes on September 11, 2002.

National Bible Week in the United States is a time when many people think more deeply than usual about the Christian Bible and all that it has given to the Western world in particular. What is often overlooked, however, is that other faiths also have sacred Scriptures, some of which are being read by people who are not members of those faiths but who are on a search for spiritual enlightenment.

In 1902, when churches held the first Thanksgiving service established by Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered Christian Science, gratitude was already well established in the hearts of those who attended. Many had been saved from life-threatening diseases and severe suffering through Mrs.

About five years ago, I taught Sunday School in Hindi—my country's national language. Some of the domestic workers who are employed in many households in my country and who did not know English used to come to the Sunday School regularly.

Most of us take the content of the Bible for granted. But there was a time when there wasn't a Bible as we know it.

Recently I was visiting some Web sites where Mary Baker Eddy's book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, is considered one of today's sacred texts. Mrs.

In 1990, when I started to read Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, I was quite skeptical and more than a little cynical about the book and its impact on people's lives. A Jewish woman from New York had given me a copy of the book and told me that it had changed her life.