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This sentence appeared in a newspaper: "In our nation, freedom of religion and conscience are not only guaranteed in the constitution, they're exercised daily. " Most citizens living in an open, free, democratic society would agree.

The end of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth made great demands on people's religious faith. Two world wars left devastating memories for many.

Missed Sunday School lately? It can be pretty tempting to stay home or go somewhere else on Sunday morning — free time seems hard to come by. So why does this hour on Sunday morning matter? Well, it's a time you can get help in feeling more of God's love for you, right in the middle of all the things you are involved in.

After I graduated from college and spent a year teaching overseas, I found myself back at home with my parents. I had no clue about what to do or where to go next.

It was only Wednesday, but I felt as though I'd already worked a full week. Our department was on an extremely tight deadline for a project that needed to be completed by that Friday, and we were far from finished.

A friend of mine had just finished his technical training program in the United States Air Force. Arriving for his first assignment at a Strategic Air Command base, he looked forward eagerly to attending church services on the base.

Those only who are tried in the furnace reflect the image of their Father. —Mary Baker Eddy Miscellaneous Writings, p.

When I was a child, I studied the violin. I remember my first lesson vividly.

As Magritte illustrated in so many of his paintings, treacherous images are counterfeits of what's real. Sometimes, though, they look so real that we're fooled into believing whatever they're projecting on the canvas of our lives, including our body.

Among Belgian surrealist Rene Magritte's many thought-provoking paintings, The Treachery of Images produces persistent discussion. Many of his works present visual paradoxes, but this particular painting explicitly raises the question "What is real?" The top three quarters of the painting shows a pretty ordinary-looking pipe; underneath are the words: "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" (This is not a pipe).