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I've been asked many times why I use prayer to gain relief from physical ailments or to overcome stress or some other challenge in my life. Sometimes when this question comes up, I find that people want to know about the "what ifs" as well.

Recently when I was rereading the story of Joseph in the Bible, one sentence stopped me short: "Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph. "   Ex.

On a shelf in an attic, a leather-bound book had been collecting dust for over a decade. A young man found it at a time he desperately needed it.

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.