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The panel discussion at Annual Meeting was preceded by videotaped remarks by Sir John Templeton, renowned global investor and philanthropist, a devout Presbyterian, and the sponsor of the annual Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion. Here are some excerpts:.

A Fellow I Know was, as a young boy, always curious about explosives. His dad, a chemist, had warned him repeatedly not to play with explosive devices.

A woman telephoned a Christian Science practitioner one night to report that she had terrible pain in her body; that she was unable to retain any food; that she couldn't even think because she felt so bad. She asked for treatment in Christian Science.

When I was about twelve years old, we moved to a part of my country where we were among the town's few Christians. My country of origin is Iran, and Bibles are banned there.

People who believe that they experience psychic or portentous feelings and thoughts often say that they are "being told" of future evil. This raises the question of where such omens come from.

At dusk , I stood on the edge of Canyon de Chelly, in Arizona, looking down at sheep grazing on the mesas far below. The Navajo sheepherder's call sounded, and the quietly grazing sheep began to move down toward their enclosures for the night.

Treatment in Christian Science , or healing through prayer, is definitely not staid or formulaic—a materially structured way of addressing a materially structured abnormality. It's just the opposite.

The Minister of a Methodist church in downtown Cleveland has seen the congregation grow from almost nothing when he arrived to a healthy size. And the new congregation is full of diversity—racially, ethnically, and economically—which, he says, is "tremendously energizing.

The Journal  asked contributing editor Geoffrey Barratt to comment on the role of the natural sciences in the pursuit of truth. Also in this issue is a discussion of the natural sciences and spirituality.

A sign of the times As Science and Health is becoming better known to the public, requests for information about the author, Mary Baker Eddy, have dramatically increased. At the same time, the academic community is taking a renewed interest in Mrs.