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I have taught comparative literature at a university in northern California for many years, and increasingly I am finding that my primary activity as a teacher is to pray. I used to spend hours researching and making class plans (and I still do research and planning).

Alexis Van Pelt is a high-school senior who interned in an elementary school classroom as part of her senior project. When I began my internship in a first-grade classroom, I was immediately inspired by the children's purity and spirituality.

A longtime teacher, with tongue firmly in cheek, compiled a list of student bloopers, actual passages culled from pupils' essays. For instance: "Homer also wrote the Oddity.

In May we looked at early Jewish education of children. It is very likely that, at first, Christian education of the young shared at least some of the characteristics of the Jewish approach.

Appreciating one hundred years of spiritual insight and healing In January we began a series in appreciation of the Journal's contribution to the twentieth century. This month we reprint an article and testimonies published in the 1970s, a decade marked, among other things, by changing roles for women and shifting concepts of family life.

As I listened to the television news one summer evening, the announcer reported that the beaches of southern California had been inundated by an unusual number of jellyfish. He cautioned all swimmers and waders to use care when going into the water.

In a world beset with challenges, it is heartening to have the Biblical assurance "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. "   Ps.

"I know that my mission is for all the earth, not alone for my dear devoted followers in Christian Science.

With my junior year in high school finally coming to an end, the question "What are you going to do with your life?" struck me, along with a feeling of fear and uncertainty. Yet I was so grateful for the wounderful lessons I had learned in Christian Science, and for the fact that I could "cast [my] burden upon the Lord"   Ps.

Sitting in my car outside the pharmacy, I wept as I clutched a small bottle filled with Ritalin, a prescription drug for hyperactive children. When our daughter was fourteen months old, we had been referred to a pediatric neurologist, who told us she was "developmentally delayed.