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As spiritual ideas of God , you and I are always fresh, new, and full of promise. Nothing can ever take our newness away.

Sometimes we feel so alone , like everything we care deeply about has been taken from us. I went through one of those life-changing experiences several years ago when I was employed in a job that I believed was a milestone in my acting and singing career.

Lyric soprano Jennifer Foster is soloist of The Mother Church in Boston. Jennifer has continued her professional career while raising her children.

Ed Blomquist is copyright administrator for The Christian Science Publishing Society, advising various departments on copyright issues and also everseeing the permission for reprints of The Christian Science Monitor and other periodicals. An amateur jazz musician, he teaches several courses on copyright issues at Berklee College of Music.

Some years ago , I hand-carried a friend's family Bible, chock full of history, to her relatives in England. She wanted to make sure the record of events would not be lost.

Since the terrorist attacks in the United States on September 11, I've been more aware of a distinct connection between two different longings—the longing for community, and the longing for communion with a higher power. I began to think about the connection when I got my hair cut a few days after the attacks.

Growing up in an area where religion wasn't discussed much in school, I was unprepared for the theological conversations I encountered when I went to college. Religion was a major topic of conversation at mealtime and during other informal gatherings.

Is God up in heaven, a long way off from us here on earth? That's what I thought when I was a child. I pictured God as a grandfatherly type, sitting on a throne up in the sky.

In a deep sense, every thought and writing and utterance and form must be revolutionary. It must attempt to give expression to the everlasting discontent with everything that is—a discontent that distinguishes the human being from the beast—it must attempt to change human life, the personal and the social.

Like many other countries , Germany has been affected by last year's events in New York and Washington. Many of us who live in Germany have American friends, and so we are touched by what happened.