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The Increasing Interest today in things spiritual is becoming evident in perhaps unexpected places. Doctors are investigating and affirming the effect of prayer on bodily health; theologians in greater numbers are beginning to accept that prayer can actually bring physical healing; and physicists and other natural scientists are increasingly positing the existence of a directing spiritual force in the universe.

Sometimes  it seems that civility and respect are helpless victims of materialism and crime. Especially disturbing are reports of vandalism in schools, the desecration of houses of worship, the defamation of values and institutions.

Life On This Planet requires water. Weather, an atmospheric phenomenon, is what lifts it from oceans and distributes it over the earth's surface.

The Journal asked frequent contributor Richard Bergenheim to comment on this subject of great significance to Christians . Over the years it has become common to preach that God showed the depth of His love for us by allowing His Son, Jesus Christ, to be crucified for our sins.

How was Mary Baker Eddy able to accomplish so much in a time when women had few rights and were often treated as second-class citizens? Teachers, journalists, corporate professionals, historians, and theologians are just some of the individuals who have been seeking to know more about this remarkable woman and her life-transforming book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. The media's interest in Mrs.

In celebration of Women's History Month in the United States, the Journal presents a perspective on the reformatory work of this magazine's founder. This article is adapted from a talk given at the Women's Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls, New York, in March 1998.

I Love Bible Verses . They say so much in such fresh ways as we start grasping their spiritual meaning.

As his third day of teaching in the Temple at Jerusalem draws to a close, Jesus still finds receptive listeners among the people. But after he and his disciples leave the city, his teachings turn somber, filled with warnings of destruction —and not just for the Temple.

If We Feel Engulfed by trouble and don't know which way to turn for help, we can turn with assurance to God. Countless people since Biblical times have found Him to be "a very present help in trouble.

The department of continuing education at Harvard Medical School and the Mind/Body Medical Institute, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, will be holding their seventh symposium on "Spirituality &' Healing in Medicine" in Chicago, Illinois, from March 20 to 22 . During the sixth symposium in the series, in Boston in December, there were talks on Buddhist, Jewish, Roman Catholic, Hispanic-Pentecostal, Christian Science, and several other healing practices, and panel discussions on the efficacy of spiritual healing and its place in current medical practice.