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Do you have questions you d like to explore with other readers? This feature provides a forum where people around the world exchange questions and answers about church activities. Questions cover subjects such as the public practice of Christian Science healing and nursing, church membership, churches and Sunday Schools ministering to their communities, and spiritual exploration and outreach at colleges and universities.

First Church of Christ, Scientist, Ryde, Australia, had been in the public eye for some weeks prior to a lecture we held some time ago. We had invited the community, including the mayor, to an open house for our newly renovated Reading Room.

Have you ever wanted to share Christian Science with a friend or acquaintance who appeared to have a great need? Many of us who have experienced the powerful, healing effects of this Science have had this desire. One important way of letting our friends know about Science and benefit from it is by offering to pray for them if a need for help is apparent.

One of the joys of Annual Meeting is listening to "general reports from the Field" (see Mary Baker Eddy, Manual of The Mother Church , Art. XIII, Sect.

As a professional jazz musician, I have been asked if I ever get "high" to perform or if I do drugs to enhance my performances. In the performing realm and in the arts in general, one knows the game that is played with the ego, and the pressures to maintain constant, fresh inspiration and freedom of expression.

If God is good, then God's will for us all must be good. But if that is the case, you may ask, am I doing something wrong if I seem to be struggling? Even Christ Jesus, whose healing mission had already shown his total obedience to God's purpose and plan, nevertheless struggled at the time of his crucifixion.

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 fulltime practice.

Musing over an unsettled relationship, I was reminded of Mary Baker Eddy's observation "There are no greater miracles known to earth than perfection and an unbroken friendship. " Retrospection and Introspection, p.

Sometimes our lives seem to be disconnected from God. But can God, who is All, omnipresent, ever be distant? Can He ever be separate from His creation? The more we understand His absolute allness, the more we see evidence of His gentle control of our entire experience.

The time is Monday morning, March 16, 1885. A new religions teaching, expounding radical theological concepts and headed by a dynamic woman, is coming to the forefront of public thought.