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Beginnings–1995 An invitation from Harvard Medical School and The Mind/Body Medical Institute, Deaconess Hospital, to speak at its conference on Spirituality & Healing in Medicine came to The Christian Science Board of Directors in 1995. After very careful consideration, the invitation was accepted.

The Congregational Church has strong roots in New England, and was Mary Baker Eddy's church home for nearly four decades. She left the Congregational Church shortly before the publication of her book, Science and Health in 1875.

Hair, Prayer, And Hot Air. That's the way the owner of a beauty salon, a group of Christian Science practitioners, and three lawyers—all of whom are neighbors in an office building—jokingly describe their work together.

Brian Toohey works in New York City as both a hair stylist and designer. He spoke with us about his spiritual journey and how he began to practice the healing ideas in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.

Constance U. Battle, M.

I've often been benefited by the prayers of Christian Science healers. But I've also been healed many times by going straight to God myself.

You may have seen those bracelets with the initials W. W.

The people in these pages have joined the Journal's mission "to put on record" some glimpse of God's goodness, some truth that's taken them to higher ground in the aftermath of September 11. Their musings, struggling, prayers, and footsteps toward solutions come from their own journals—or they've spoken of them to the staff off the cuff, with modesty and honesty, and straight from the heart.

Perhaps the least familiar of the twelve apostles appointed by Jesus was a man called Simon Zelotes, or Simon the Zealot. Outside of his designation as an apostle, nothing else is said of him in the Scriptures, although some scholars associate him with a political party of the day, the Zealots—a radical group committed to overthrowing by force the Roman rule over Judaea.

You're taking a tour of China with your wife and a relative, and you become seriously ill. Since you are accustomed to relying solely on spiritual healing, you feel that you want to stick with that familiar form of help in this unfamiliar place.