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Working in local government in my homeland, New Zealand, I came face to face with the inequitable way in which First Nations people had been treated. Since then, I have often thought of the many past injustices in the world that keep bubbling up to the surface in one form or another with righteous demands that they be rectified.

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In the seventh chapter of Luke in the Bible, Christ Jesus compassionately healed a widow’s grief by restoring her only son to life, near the gate of the city Nain (see verses 11–16 ). In the culture of the time, women relied upon male relatives for their social and economic well-being, and widows could be left destitute without this support.

I sat on a bench outside, absolutely shattered by what I had just heard.   A young man I had unexpectedly met informed me that his grandparents had been among the rebel forces that had killed my younger sibling more than fifty years earlier, destroyed my childhood home, and devastated our lives.

We don’t have to look far to see that there is an urgent need for justice in our world; a justice that includes every individual and leaves no one struggling on the outside. The needs of today are pushing us to search deeply for what true impartiality, fairness, and equality mean.

A researcher at the Dolphin Research Center in Florida said that when a storm blows in, they open the underwater gate from the bay to the ocean for the dolphins to swim out into the deep water so they won’t get dashed against the rocks by the waves. Below the surging waves, it can actually be quite calm.

During the past couple of years, the vulnerability of the body to disease has been at the forefront of world thought, and the need for more dependable, consistent healing has become clear. The limitations of treating man as an organic machine that can be fixed with drugs or surgery have been very apparent.

This article is adapted from an interview with Harold Bradley, Jr. , conducted in Rome in 2011, which was reviewed and approved by Harold shortly afterward.

Several years ago , an article I had submitted to The Christian Science Publishing Society was ready to go to press. However, close to the deadline I received an email from one of the editors telling me that the article needed to be shortened.

My husband taught me how to ride a motorcycle many years ago. Before I even got on the bike, the first step was to make sure I had the right equipment.