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For the last century and a half , women around the world have been publicly claiming their right to recognition in the history of the world and their individual nations. Some people may feel that this is a "been there, done that" kind of issue.

During My Last Year Of High School, antiwar sentiment in the United States had shifted into high gear, the military draft hung like a dark cloud over 18 year-olds, and Martin Luther King, Jr. —a figure we admired from afar—was gunned down.

People Will Do Just About Anything To Be Free. In the 19th century, American slaves risked their lives in swamps and darkness, and at least one slave mailed himself to the North in a box so he could be free.

Church, for me, started out with the word light . I remember being maybe two or three years old, sitting on the kitchen floor while my mother prepared supper.

Shops and homes sparkling with lights. Friendly hellos in the supermarkets.

Many years ago I was asked to write an article about Christmas for translation into Japanese for the article on Christian Science in The Christian Science Monitor. But this was August, and there was no snow where I live.

Prayer is universal. It was as much present in the park in Pematangsiantar early that morning in northern Sumatra as it had been when we left Boston for a round-the-world business trip.

Prayer –almost everybody does it. Even in the United States, over 80 percent of people polled by the Barna Research Group in September reported that they pray.

• "Ten years ago I was healed of hereditary deafness .

Many Years Ago when I was living on my own, a friend and I experimented with marijuana brownies. I had never used drugs before and was just doing it to please my friend.