August 23, 2004
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It's a Familiar Scene
on TV news-magazines and evening news programs.
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Our News & Special Projects Editor looks at the phenomenon called groupthink—and finds some spiritual insights that help break through the fog of automatic mass thinking.
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Thoughout my career in human resources, I've had more than one opportunity to experience groupthink and its consequences.
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The world is teeming with teams—sports, medical, political, financial, educational—you name it.
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When maintaining group harmony is more important than reaching hard but honest answers, watch out.
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Groupthink can be mindless. Group prayer involves listening for divine wisdom. That's the real power to change the world.
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In high school, John Conner wanted to play football, but was too small, so he became a weightlifter. But the real change came when he shifted focus from body weight to spiritual depth.
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Meet the two men who spearheaded the effort that helped 200 hemeless and low-income people register to vote. The event was held on the green at The Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity.
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Kicking the haze of alcohol derailed a young teen from her trajectory staight toward trouble. And now, 30 years later, she finds that life continues to be good on its own terms.
CHURCH LIVES
The next our continuing series on what church membership can do for you, your neighbor, and the world.
RELATIONSHIPS
Alone in my loft room,
I let my gaze wander from the rough-hewn rafters above me to the Italian Alps glistening outside in the spring sunshine.
SPIRITUAL focus on books
Many readers of modern novels have delighted in Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees.
SENTINEL WATCH
Things are heating up
this election year in the United States.
Testimony of Healing
I began to understand more clearly that good health comes from God, and that I couldn't lose it.
Testimony of Healing
Originally published in Le Héraut de la Christian Science
FROM THE editors
Drawing on the reason and clarity that come from divine Intelligence puts oneself outside the box of blind, robotic thinking.
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