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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.

The Church Financial situation looked bleak. At our first church meeting in a new city, my husband and I learned that almost half of the members had left because they wanted to build a new church.

Some time ago , I had a strong reminder of God’s government in my life. My husband and I were selling our house, and we started the purchase process on the new house with quite a long lead time.

My four-year-old daughter and I were in our car heading to the park, when she noticed I was feeling worried and asked if she could sing a song. The first words she sang were, “God is the hum of life.

You sometimes hear it said that someone is “a pillar of the church,” implying that this one’s devotion and service are so substantial that he or she is an essential support for their church. Such a position can seem to be a great burden at times and make for a sense of weariness or imposition.

While often glorified in literature and movies, sensuality can be one of the darkest places a person can be mentally. Extreme forms of sensuality, such as addiction to pornography, can overtake people, causing them to betray their true selves and separating them from their best interests and from normal relationships with others, especially those they love.

Being firmly convinced by experience that the study and application of the biblically based truths of Christian Science heals, is the reason many people choose to consistently rely upon and practice this demonstrable Science. This conviction that Christian Science heals inheres in the acknowledgment that the truths explained in Mary Baker Eddy’s seminal book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, were revealed to her from God, divine Mind.

When Jesus met a man blind from birth, his disciples asked a question indicating they viewed the man’s blindness as a kind of penalty attached to him: “Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus’ compassion and spiritual understanding exposed as a lie that false theological belief, when he replied: “Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him” ( John 9:2, 3 ). Then Jesus healed the man, proving that the man of God’s creating is perfect, forever free of penalties, forever sinless and upright.