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When someone says "Reformation," most people think of Martin Luther, the catalyst for the religious "protest" that evolved into what are now called Protestant churches. Henry VIII, King of England, had his share of disagreements with the Roman Catholic Church — not all of them purely religious — and he took this time of protest as an opportunity to make a break with the Pope.

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. We are inspired by the notes and e-mails we continue to receive from friends and members who have been motivated by these ideas in their interactions with fellow seekers.

The August issue of the Journal began a three-part series that included accounts of new readers who shared their experiences with Science at Health with Key to the Scriptures at 2002 Annual Meeting & Conference. We continue here sharing these inspiring accounts of new readers of Science and Health.

In this decade, some barriers break down, some seeds of war are planted, and technology in the fields of communication, health, aviation and rocket science has increasing influence. Economic crises also loom large.

In the previous segments of this series on The Herald of Christian Science, we've seen how the German edition grew out of demand from individual Christian Scientists in Germany and how the French edition was forged in wartime. The Scandinavian edition — which later became three separate editions (Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish with a Finnish section) — came about through the persistence of the branch churches of Christ, Scientist, in those countries.

When Socrates spoke and Plato wrote, they staked out the two main ways we communicate with each other: speech and writing. Moreover, they generated a crucial philosophical debate: Which is superior, the living, spoken word or the unchanging, written text? Which is more authentic? More reliable? Which connects us more directly to truth? At the heart of this speech/writing debate is a paradox, which continues to preoccupy scholars.

Public lectures and workshops are sponsored by organizations all around the world. Look online, for example, at the British Museum in London, the American Film Institute in Los Angeles, or the Columbia University School of Architecture in New York City.

During the early 1880s, Bostonians were becoming aware of a new healing method called Christian Science. At first, the "Boston Craze," as the newspapers put it, was quite modest in size and fairly local in scope.

When the lecture committee for the very small Christian Science Society in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada, started thinking about having a public lecture, they weren't sure how they'd be able to manage it. Their funds seemed inadequate and they were anxious about a potentially low turnout.

2002-2003 The Christian Science Board of Lectureship Speakers Many organizations—museums, libraries, and churches, for example—provide lecture series. And speakers on many different topics travel around the world providing seminars, training, and inspiration.