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What does it take to heal? Questions like this, coming from a public faced with diverse views on spiritual healing, promoted in founding of this magazine over a century ago. In an editorial in the first issue, its founder emphasizes that Christly qualities heal: "Great charity and humility is necessary in this work of healing.

The Statement of Mission and Purpose of The Mother Church includes this objective: Expanded availability and accessibility of Science and Health with key to the Scriptures. The reports from the Field at this year's Annual Meeting show the wide-ranging impact of that effort.

Recently, I was reading a magazine article about the restoration of the frescoes of Biblical scenes on the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Twenty years ago, while visiting Rome, I saw Michelangelo's masterprice, and it was obvious even to my untrained eye that artist's original work had become obscured.

Jesus' parable of the prodigal son is my favorite parable. See Luke 15:11-32.

When Jesus said , "I am the way," He meant that to have a true relationship with God, you must practice His way. In the Acts of the Apostles, the early Christians always spoke of their faith as "the Way.

For many years my family lived in Swaziland, a small southern African country, working at a school with individuals representing over fifty nationalities and most of the world's major faith traditions. I followed this with three years of education toward a degree in Biblical studies in a community of nine seminaries.

In the wake of the Second World War, Mohandas K. Gandhi.

A friend of mine overheard a conversation between a four-year-old and her mother. "My feet are killing me," the four-year-old said, obviously repeating an adult's statement.

" What do you expect? I'm only human. " This response, often uttered in a matter-of-fact way, sums up a fundamental conviction about life—that by our very nature we're limited, and that imperfection, failure, and disappointment are an inescapable part of existence.

When I was about four or five, someone pointed out a small portrait of Christ Jesus on the wall of church one day. I didn't know much about Jesus at the time, so I kept looking at it, thinking, and wondering, Who was he? What was he like? I can recall clearly how I felt at that moment: serious, curious, reverent.