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We frequently hear from the news media of those who are unsatisfied with the name "Father" and with the pronouns "He" and "Him" as the only designations for the Supreme Being. Many people are reaching for a more meaningful perception of the person or individuality of God than that of a male deity.

Recently a friend and I were discussing our growth and goals in Christian Science. Our conversation turned naturally to church and our part in its progress, finally dwelling on the problems of apathy and lack of motivation in church work.

Report from Ghana: from fetishism to a caring God The following report was sent in by First Church of Christ, Scientist, Accra, Ghana. In our country, the belief in fetishism is quite common.

Christ Jesus is our Way-shower. He taught us how to identify ourselves.

What did Jesus mean when he said, "The kingdom of God is within you"? Luke 17:21. Was he talking abstractly? Or did he say this to appease someone? Either thought would be inconsistent with what we know of Christ Jesus.

When as a child I asked my father the meaning of a particular word, he used to tell me to look it up in a dictionary. "That way," he would say, "you will get the exact explanation of it.

In early Mediterranean cultures certain laws were inflexible. To the ancient Hebrew, betrothal was a binding contract; and if a bride-to-be was found illegally with child, she was subject to death by stoning.

One Wednesday night I was going home from church so uplifted by the healing testimonies given and the inspiration of it all that I was singing happily, utterly confident that man is always spiritually secure in God's creation. Then suddenly my thought fell down with a thud! "Why do I have to go home— to confusion, to the harshness of human emotions, judgments, and disappointments? I really don't want to go home at all!" I finally realized.

The rose garden was beautiful, and I found myself wishing I could have one too. But that was an impossibility for me at the time.

The practice of Christian Science pours divine energies into human consciousness, and these energies cleanse, invigorate, and heal, putting individuals progressively under the control of God, divine Mind. God's qualities—love, wisdom, health, for example—are divine energies.