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Last October, our Features Editor, Kim Shippey, joined a thousand other delegates at the fifteenth National Workshop on Christian-Jewish Relations, held in Stamford, Connecticut. It was an international gathering of clergy, academicians, seminarians, religious leaders, and lay people representing more than fifty different faiths.

Last October, the Committee on Publication of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, was an exhibitor at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) in Boston. Committee workers engaged with AAP members on a subject that both pediatricians and Christian Scientists really care about—finding solutions to the problem of child abuse.

When someone's thinking is intruding upon our own, we don't hear a bell ringing to warn us. So how can we tell when unlawful, detrimental interference is occurring? The one sure way to increasingly detect harmful mental influences and to deter what they would claim to do is through letting the divine Mind, in its infinite goodness and purity, be our Mind.

For the benefit of humanity, it's important to identify the source of resistance to spiritual healing and then deal swiftly and forcibly with it. The carnal, or mortal, mind is what resists healing by spiritual means alone.

For some years, battery manufacturers have delighted in demonstrating the durability or "life" of their batteries in television advertisements that show small toys outlasting the competition. Although some batteries may be more durable than others, all will eventually become "dead" batteries because they contain only a limited source of potential energy.

In the Bible in Psalms we're assured, "He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. " PS.

There is a new "door" into The Mother Church, open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. It's a "virtual" but very accessible and wide door, opening onto the Internet, the worldwide assemblage of information linked by computers and telephone lines.

The beatitude "Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted" Matt. 5:4.

The Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke each record an incident now known as the transfiguration. See Matt.

Does that surprise you? Well, it's true! Death is only a mythological misconception— which is just a fancy way of saying that it is an illusion. To human perception, of course, it seems inescapable, concrete reality.