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While I'm sure that both of our parents loved my sister and me greatly, my sense of competition with a well-behaved and talented older sister led me to be the family mischief-maker. A ballet class recital set the scene for a change in all this, however.

Dr. Hamid Varasteh is an attorney active in international legal services and arbitration, living in Teheran, Iran.

Every year, beginning right after Thanksgiving, I make a special effort to find a fresh view of what Christmas reveals about God. And each year, one sentence or phrase from the Bible or the writings of Mary Baker Eddy has taken on new meaning for me.

Every Christmas reminds me that the reason people love hearing the account of Jesus' birth again and again is that it hints at something we intuitively know: that although we weren't present at the first Christmas, we can still receive the Christ. Christ comes to us right now, where we are.

Here's a brief report from the librarian of the Jointly-Maintained Downtown Christian Science Reading Room in Seattle. It shows how the Reading Room played a significant role in the community at the time of the World Trade Organization meeting last year.

It happened every Wednesday evening at the testimony meeting in my church. I wanted to speak up and say "Thank you, God," but instead I stayed silent, frozen in my seat.

The Reformation's influence on the history of the Christian Church in Great Britain was substantial, and without it, the religious education movement in England could not have begun. But the social changes brought about by the Industrial Revolution in the nineteenth century were as dramatic as the theological changes begun by Martin Luther three hundred years earlier.

I was thinking about young people—about peer pressure and media influence urging them to get involved in drinking, drugs, and promiscuity. A new visitor came in, wanting to learn about Christian Science.

This experience from a contributor in Ebolowa, Republic of Cameroon, was first published in The Herald of Christian Science ( French Edition ). I returned from the frontier free of warlike thoughts.

" Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. " This statement from Romans perfectly summarizes what Christian Science means to me, and I would love to share a healing that took place through Science.