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So many of us do it, year after year. We look forward to that "clean slate" given by consensus on January 1, and we make resolutions.

Frequent contributor Lois Carlson writes about a Bible teaching that has brought peace and progress in her life. I remember a time early one January when I was praying to know God's direction for the coming year.

From church doors wide open for round-the-clock prayer to a Sunday School session on the beach, the events marking World Wide Weekend 2000 focused on the healing role of Sunday School in young people's lives. The Mother Church and branch churches around the world planned their own responses to address the specific needs of young people in their community.

When I was concerned that our small church congregation didn't seem to have many resources to help our community, I realized I needed to have a more spiritual outlook on the whole scene. In praying daily for our community, I thought of a little town that's mentioned a number of times in the Bible: Bethlehem.

Recently I heard a radio announcer say: "Everyone prepare yourself. It's flu season again!" Then he went on to say that even though flu shots are often recommended, they are sometimes ineffective or have negative side effects.

Father and daughter freed from HIV Before Being Acquainted with Christian Science, I was always annoyed with problems: financial problems, relationship problems. But the severest problem I had was HIV.

In the "Mind and Body" column in The Boston Globe of August 4, 1996, Madeline Drexler wrote: "Diseases aren't always universal events—we often get sick in the way society tells us to get sick. And just as clothes and cuisines go in and out of style, medical diagnoses and the way we interpret illnesses are fashioned by culture.

It was with a feeling of exhilaration that many of us watched the telecasts of worldwide celebrations last New Year's Eve. The sheer joy and unity of spirit with which people of various cultures welcomed the year 2000 were unforgettable.

Entering spirituality as a subject on an Internet searcher or browsing in the spirituality section of a bookstore reveals a multitude of views of what spirituality is. Gabriel Fackre, of the Andover Newton Theological School in Massachusetts, has said, "The word spirituality is in such wide use today that it has lost its focus.

Years ago in graduate school, we were required to teach a full semester in partnership with a fellow student, each one taking the same class, but in alternate semesters. My partner opted for the first semester.