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Sometimes it's good to take a familiar Bible passage and just think about it—come at it as if for the very first time, make a conscious effort to put aside for a while all the historical, cultural, and linguistic background one may have about the text, and simply listen quietly to what it has to say. A while ago I decided to study in this way the account of Christ Jesus' temptation found in the fourth chapter of Matthew's Gospel.

Are you holding Christian Science church services? Even if you are not yet a branch of The Mother Church listed in The Christian Science Journal, you may well be a budding branch! In the Manual of The Mother Church, Mary Baker Eddy gives clear guidance on organizing churches. Often these churches have their beginnings when students of Christian Science gather together to hold services with our pastor, the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mrs.

I learned an important lesson in my first year of graduate school. In one of my classes, the students and the professor discussed various theories of design.

Some time before my mother passed on she spoke with me about eternal life and the confidence that she felt in the continual and progressive expression of life—even beyond death. She pointed out that this life should not be burdened with grief.

For some time, a number of years ago, I felt burdened by cynicism and gloom. In those days I would watch small children at play and wonder how the freedom and joy I had felt so naturally in childhood could evaporate so completely.

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A word about the Middle Ages Most of us romanticize the Middle Ages. We picture knights of King Arthur's Round Table, castles, lords and ladies, wandering minstrels, and crusades to liberate the Holy Land.

Most of the time, when a friend calls out, "Where are you?" you have no difficulty replying, "Down here in the kitchen" or "Out here on the porch. " But have you ever had the experience of waking up in a strange place, totally disoriented and not knowing where you were? For a few moments, until you are more completely awake, you know you are someplace—but you can't remember where! One day I began thinking about the question posed in the title of this article.

Health is a major concern today. How to achieve a healthier body often appears to consume human thought.

On Monday evening, June 7, following the 1993 Annual Meeting, a special fruitage meeting was held. Twenty church members from around the world told of their own experiences in reading Science and Health and of how they had felt its transforming power.