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A grateful heart
I was in college before I realized something different about my church. Up to that time, I assumed that the practice of holding a service on Thanksgiving Day—the way my church did—was the norm. Come to find out, it was, and still is, rather unique.
Growing up in the Northeast, I associated this special Christian Science service with classic Currier and Ives scenes of bountiful turkey dinners, jolly people bundled up amid bare trees, and sometimes a late-November snowscape. But Christian Science Thanksgiving services can happen at different times of the year in different countries, and somewhere people may be going to church in sandals instead of boots, or returning home to eat sushi instead of turkey.
November 24, 2003 issue
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A grateful heart
Steve Graham
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letters
with contributions from Jean G. Davidson, Ella Fianza Grande, Dee Mahuvawalla, Joan Taylor, Janne Curry
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items of interest
with contributions from Terry Pluto, K. Connie Kang
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Setting another place at the table
By Robin Hoagland
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I lost everything—and gained much more
By Chere Canaris
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Homeward bound
By Jewel Simmons
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The First Commandment: Start your day with God
By Meg Dendler
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A Christian and a Muslim talk about Ramadan
with contributions from Lyle Young, Kayed Khahlil
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It all started with teaching in an inner-city school
By Karim Ajania
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'I ate the Bible'
By Roy Lloyd
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Whale Rider—Two points of view
Tony Lobl, Jennifer Lobl
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A government you can love
By Tad Weber
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Prayer put me back in the race
Jon Lang
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The Word of God frees a young girl
Lise Boisdet
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Prayer proves reliable in an emergency
Liz Smith