Editorials

A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO a dear friend told me that she felt sorry for people who asked God to heal them, when they could just go to a doctor and get relief. She didn't understand why people had more faith in God than in medicine to help them.

Christ Jesus might not seem like the most obvious model for leadership. But in examining his life, it’s clear he embodied all the qualities of a great leader: selfless service, moral clarity, courage, and humility.

From the very start , Christianity has challenged what the world calls impossibilities. "With God nothing shall be impossible," said the angel Gabriel to the astonished young Mary, after he told her she would bear a child, Jesus, who would rule forever on earth.

The path alongside Strawberry Creek starts out by ambling gently upward through a colorful patchwork quilt of wildflowers. Indian paint-brush, goldenrod, azaleas, and lupine blanket the mountainside bordering the creek, in the San Bernardino National Forest of California.

Let's suppose, somewhere in the villages of Galilee, you and I heard Jesus speak. And let's give ourselves the benefit of the doubt—let's assume we would have been the kind of listeners he called "good ground," with whom his words would bear "fruit an hundredfold.

You view the world differently —more expansively and with greater clarity—when you're flying 30,000 feet or so above the earth's surface. Walls and borders disappear, time zones telescope, storm clouds turn into a carpet of whiteness, and the world's conflicts seem to dissolve into the curvature of the planet.

Each time I arrive at my mainline train station on my commute home from London, the loudspeaker announcements ask us to take our rubbish home with us. All rubbish containers have been removed from central London streets, as well as from tube and train stations because of the terrorist threat.

" It'll be right along, " I said to a woman waiting with me for an elevator. She replied, "Oh, I don't mind waiting.

A book whose power touches the small and great events. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer of Christian Science and author of its textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, wrote about her book, "The fact remains, that the textbook of Christian Science is transforming the universe.

From its first issue in April of 1903, The Herald of Christian Science has been more than just a magazine. It's been a mission.