December 6, 2004
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From the Editors
I
remember a time in high school when I was sick and missed the bus ride on basketball game night.
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"The night Susan Izard's father died,
he was wrapped in a prayer shawl knitted by her mother.
It's very possible to live free of colds and flu, and to heal yourself of cases that have already developed. The power of prayer to destroy illness — and the fear it breeds — is unmistakable. Reliable. And scientific.
One estimate of the number of people around the world who died during the 1918 pandemic is 50 million.
"OUR FOCUS WAS—AND STILL IS—ON HELPING THE POOR, BUT NOT JUST WITH CHARITY. RATHER, IT'S THROUGH THE POWER OF THE GOSPELS THAT WE SEEK AND PROMOTE JUSTICE."—Larry Castagnola
Change happens. And sometimes it threatens to irreversibly destroy physical and social landscapes. But God says, with greater power, "I am the Lord, I change not."
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The star of The Ten Commandments — The Musical and the newly released movie Alexander talks about parting the waters, past and present.
THERE WAS A TIME—THOUGH IT SEEMS SO LONG AGO — WHEN THE AVERAGE citizen could live in a bubble of "out of sight, out of mind.
Church has woven a completely unexpected and ingenious pattern in my own life's fabric.
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Ray,
a movie that brings to the big screen the big life of Ray Charles, has drawn rave reviews.
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IN A NEWSREEL OF
President Richard Nixon's first inauguration — a time of deep national division over the Vietnam war — a girl of about 12 years stood alone holding high a hand-lettered placard: "Please unite us.
However much it looked as though I were sometimes living in a cold and hostile environment, I was actually dwelling in the warmth of divine affection.
As
our children grew into their late teens and twenties, we gave up our traditional Christmas celebration at home for a family ski trip.
Just
after I started school at the age of six, I became paralyzed from the waist down.
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Except for pages 4, 5, and 22, which may not be reproduced for any reason, any full pages or double-page spreads in this issue may be reproduced up to 50 copies or enlarged on paper.
Under Love's protection,
disease cannot lay hold on you, because Love
has given you a totally spiritual nature
that cannot be a carrier
for sickness.
