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with contributions from Sentinel Staff, Priscilla Wood

THE HALLS WERE BUZZING at The Mary Baker Eddy Library in Boston on February 11, as actor Val Kilmer took the stage.
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with contributions from Scott Jaschik, Jerome Taylor

THE FULLER CENTER, a nonprofit ecumenical Christian housing ministry with covenant partners in 50 locations throughout the US and 17 countries in the world, partners with low-income families to build and renovate homes.
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with contributions from Wang Shanshan, Hu Yongqi, Lu Junting, Wu Yiyao, Solange De Santis

YU JIANRONG, a researcher with the CASS [Chinese Academy of Social Science], said many church properties were closed down during the "cultural revolution.
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with contributions from Bob Smietana, Janell Ross, Holly Leleux-Thubron, Diaa Hadid

ONE OF THE LESSONS churches have learned is that if you want to help disaster victims, it helps to have a plan.
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with contributions from Misty Harris, Kim Schneider

THE POWER OF PRAYER has long been controversial, but a new study in a leading psychological journal finds some of the first scientific evidence that it truly works—at least on the person doing the praying.
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with contributions from Nathan Talbot, Rosalie E. Dunbar

DEAR FELLOW MEMBERS AND FRIENDS,
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"It Is Astonishing," wrote Karl Barth, "how many references there are in the Old and New Testaments to delight, joy, bliss, exultation, merry-making, and rejoicing, and how emphatically these are demanded from the book of Psalms to the Epistle to the Philippians.
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with contributions from DT Strain, Robert Mills

ON THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2009, the Charter for Compassion was unveiled—a statement calling for greater compassion, and greater application of the Golden Rule, throughout the world.
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with contributions from Dan Wooding, Dale Salwak

At the same time that Ukrainian candidates are battling each other for votes in the upcoming presidential election, Christian doctors gathering in Kiev, the country's capital, for a "Spirituality and Medicine" conference have already cast their vote—for "miracles.
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with contributions from M. K. Merelice, Lorna Edwards

[THE FOLLOWING LETTER was a published reply to a November 27, 2009, Boston Globe editorial titled, "No prayers in health bill.