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On eight Thursday evenings this spring, I negotiated the hills of San Francisco to attend a series of lectures on world religions at the Unitarian Universalist Church at Geary and Franklin streets. In the spirit of this progressive town, youthful activists with petitions for saving old-growth forests, along with collectors of blankets for the homeless, met the arriving crowd.

John Gould's first column appeared in The Christian Science Monitor in 1942. So he was already a veteran columnist by the time I found him at eight or nine.

You're strolling down the sidewalk, and just ahead you see there's a dislodged piece of pavement sticking up. What are the chances you'll trip on it? About nil—because you see it.

Many years ago a professor in my college philosophy class walked to the blackboard and wrote out a set of questions concerning the power of God and the nature of evil posed by the Greek philosopher Epicurus: • Is He willing to prevent evil, but not able? then is He impotent. • Is He able, but not willing? then is He malevolent.

Throughout her life, Mary Baker Eddy was actively interested in the world around her. An avid newspaper reader, she would have been well aware that Charles Guiteau shot US President James A.

Albert Einstein is probably best known for his special theory of relativity, which presented the formula E=mc 2 —that is, energy is equal to mass times the speed of light squared. He was only 26 years old when he made this discovery, and he spent much of the rest of his life working on the general theory of relativity, which he announced in 1926, and on the unified theory of relativity, which he did not complete.

Not since World War II has the United States been so preoccupied with any single problem as it has been with terrorism after the events of September 11. This focus on the threat of terrorism presents a dual challenge to every citizen of the world.

The author of Be Careful What You Pray For .

One Particular historic event in the Christian Science movement became increasingly important to me, because my grandmother had been there. I can recall hearing her tell of how, in 1906, she had been so sure that she would be attending the Annual Meeting of The Mother Church when the Extension to the Original Mother Church would be opened to the public.

I've always felt comfortable sharing the Christian Science Sentinel, but I rarely felt that way about the Journal. During a conversation on a recent flight, however, my seatmate asked some very searching questions about Christian Science.