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We should regularly find inspiration, heartwarming fellowship, and a great sense of purpose through committing ourselves to serving Church. At times, though, it may seem as if this very commitment stirs up a hornet's nest of problems.

A new era—an age-old quest In commenting on the recent public demand for books on practical spirituality, a Los Angeles bookstore owner was quoted as saying: "This is really just a new era of an old age.

When my sister and I were in our early teens, our mother would often take us to a ranch where we could ride horses. Since we were considered too young to go off on our own, we had to ride inside a stadium.

Every insight into the nature of God brings us closer to seeing our full potential and perfection as His image and likeness. Each new insight helps us to express more fully our true, spiritual nature and consequently brings healing—improves our humanhood.

The first issue of The Christian Science Journal in April 1883 carried a notice for "Public Lectures" held in Boston. These lectures were advertised as "free to all.

At the back of this magazine there is a directory of names of individuals engaged in the public healing ministry of Christian Science. We thought it might be helpful to Journal readers, and especially to those who are considering fuller engagement in Christian Science healing, to hear some of these practitioners share a few thoughts about how they got started in the full-time practice.

Those seeking work and security for themselves and their families often feel greatly frustrated. The media sometimes magnify economic problems, reporting that an enormous host of job seekers and home seekers are competing for a limited number of jobs and homes.

Mary Baker Eddy grew up in the Congregational church. She writes that it was "where my parents first offered me to Christ in infant baptism.

During the seventh and eighth centuries a sizable region in northeastern England called Northumbria reached a high level of culture in art, literature, and religion. The simple rustic customs of early Celtic Christianity were gradually being replaced by a more centralized church order controlled from Rome.

Joy , tenderness, health, boundless good, a complete sense of family—every true and cherished element of life is included in God, divine Mind, and expressed by man. Therefore man, Mind's spiritual idea, its image, is never excluded from good.