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To me, one of the most moving passages in Scripture is the one in which Christ Jesus' disciple Peter hears the cock crow at the end of a dark night. The previous evening he had told Jesus that he was willing to go to prison or the grave for his sake.

Last year Sandy Mathiesen, a member of Third Church of Christ, Scientist, Washington, D. C.

The word suggestion means a proposal or something implied as a possibility. An aggressive suggestion would be a proposal coming to our thought over and over with great persistency.

A college campus doesn't always seem like the most promising place to learn about God and spirituality! Just before I left for college, a friend told me that a popular magazine had given my university the dubious honor of being ranked the number one drinking school in the nation. While I didn't want to drink or smoke, I did want to participate actively in college life and wondered how I would fit in.

We can make of the Christian Science church services we attend merely casual, perfunctory experiences, or we can make of them holy, uplifting, healing, redemptive experiences. Which shall it be? Do we feel that just taking the body to church and plunking it in a pew takes care of our obligation? Do we say, in effect, "Here I am God—go ahead and bless me!" If we are reluctantly present physically and are stubbornly absent mentally, what profiteth it us? Does a physically present deaf ear help us? Or anyone else? Do we attend church because we think we should, because we fear that if we don't, we're going to get chastised for it sometime? Or are we drawn by the irresistible, all-loving attraction of Spirit? We know that Church is not, in the truest sense, a material place we go to but a divine idea we take with us every day, wherever we go.

George Fox , the founder of the Society of Friends, also known as the Quakers, was born into a poor family in a small village in Fenny Drayton, England, in 1624. He was self-educated and self-ordained as a religious leader.

For centuries, maps and charts have provided travelers and explorers the assurance of knowing where the boundaries of a territory are and what routes promise safe travel. They can also indicate what and where the hazards of the terrain or sea are and where safe havens can be found.

As an amateur photographer, I enjoy taking slides during my travels. There's something about a color transparency that is more immediate for me than a color print.

When Mary Baker Eddy was twelve, the theological belief of predestination was prevalent in churches in the United States. This Calvinistic belief of "unconditional election" provided that some were "saved" and others were doomed to endless separation from God.

There's no question about it. Thousands of individuals the world over love Mary Baker Eddy.