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I generally go to the movies early enough to catch the previews of forthcoming attractions. I like doing so for two reasons.

Maybe you, too, have noticed this social phenomenon, as some call it—spirituality seekers everywhere, yet in many instances, dwindling church attendance. To someone for whom spirituality and church are not only important but inseparable, this trend could be troubling.

The media report an irony associated with the continuing surge of interest in spirituality. They say it's running side by side with a decline in attendance at some mainline churches.

When I was in my senior year of college, thousands of American men and women were serving in Vietnam. Thousands more, and many religious leaders, were protesting the United States' involvement in the war.

How would you like to be the only Christian Scientist in a town where you share your subscription to The Christian Science Monitor with members of your community? This has been the experience of a woman in Dodge City, Kansas. In addition, members from First Church of Christ, Scientist, Wichita, are actively engaged in sharing the Monitor.

When I was a young woman, a kind neighbor introduced me to Christian Science. She was not a Christian Scientist but had subscribed to and enjoyed the Christian Science Sentinel for many years.

The following experience of a church organist shows the great importance of the By-Law "Prayer in Church" from the Manual of The Mother Church by Mrs. Eddy, which reads : " The prayers in Christian Science churches shall be offered for the congregations collectively and exclusively.

I was fifteen. It was a beautiful spring day in the small town where I lived in the midwestern United States.

Imagine if some person in your community were to attend a Christian Science branch church with this question in thought: "I wonder if these people are followers of Christ Jesus?" What would be the one sure way a newcomer to Christian Science could tell they were disciples of Jesus? It wouldn't be from tattoos on their arms stating "Property of Christ," which they wouldn't have. It wouldn't be from watching them walk barefoot over hot coals to prove their devotion, which Christian Scientists don't do.

In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures , Mary Baker Eddy writes: "The time for thinkers has come. Truth, independent of doctrines and time-honored systems, knocks at the portal of humanity.