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Wanting to get more involved in my community, I accepted the job of vice-president of the PTA (Parent-Teacher Association) for my son's elementary school. It promised to be an exciting year, and an enriching one for the children.
Leadership. It's a topic that touches everyone, from people in the smallest town right up to the international scene where the people of Iraq and other nations work to define what leadership really is.
Whether I spent it in my grandparents' house in San Francisco as a child, in a storybook setting Europe as a young mother, or in the heat of Melbourne, Australia, I've always loved Christmas. To me, it's more than a season or a date on the calendar; Christmas is a power.
Imagine, if you will , a world in which there are no airplanes, no telephones, no Internet websites. A world where international communication is slow and uncertain, where international friendships are difficult to develop.
I couldn't move or even breathe without pain. I was praying and was talking daily with a Christian Science practitioner who was giving me treatment.
Healing —it's something everyone wants, and it is possible for everyone. Long-term illness affects literally millions of people.
What do you think prison conditions were like in AD 50 or 60? The Anchor Bible Dictionary says that the area of the prison the Apostle Paul and Silas were placed in was "the most secure and unpleasant. " (New York: Doubleday, 1992), Vol 5, p.
Back in the 1970s I sat in a church pew listening to an Anglican priest tell about being arrested for his resistance to apartheid in South Africa and his conviction that people's prayers had led to his release. The power of prayer to uphold and defend human rights—it's a message that still rings true and works wonders, as the writers in this month's Frontlines make clear.
The Worldwide 2003 Annual Meeting of The Mother Church & Conference was held in June—but you can still hear the echo. Rippling through the universe is a message as old as time.
There are moments when something happens that changes everything. One instant, it's the usual routine; the next instant, one's world view is irrevocably changed.