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Part of a really big idea
What had it meant to me to become a member of The Mother Church in Boston at age 13? If anyone had asked, I'm not sure I could have answered. Except perhaps to exude the joy and pride I felt, for I loved God and the peace Christian Science had brought to my family.
Yet somehow I did know that my membership had nothing to do with a church building. If I'd been pressed to think it through (which might have been a good thing), I bet I'd have said that Mother Church membership felt like being part of a really big idea.
Integral to my feelings about The Mother Church has always been a conviction that God's love is present for everyone, including me. And as years passed, the Church Manual, written by Mary Baker Eddy, was guide and protector inspiring me with wise counsel for my relationship with God, its author, others, and myself. Still, at times, I'd ask myself, "What does this membership mean?"
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August 13, 2007 issue
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LETTERS
with contributions from SILKE SCHON, FRED LLOYD, MARTHA DOSS, PAM THORNDIKE
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Part of a really big idea
PATRICIA KADICK, STAFF EDITOR
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ITEMS OF INTEREST
with contributions from Melissa McEver, Jennifer Koons
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ONE WAY TO SHINE
BY NATHAN A. TALBOT
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UNITED WITH MEMBERS AROUND THE WORLD
Ingrid Peschke with contributions from Kate Sims
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MOTHER CHURCH MEMBERSHIP—7 MEMBERS TELL THEIR STORIES
with contributions from SHEILA MARY COOK, CASEY FEDDE, H. LEE KINNEY, DANIEL OTIENO OKELLO, ERIKA PARRISH—WILCOX, PETER WARD, LILIAN PASSET
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Communication from the heart
BY SHELLY RICHARDSON
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AS GOD LOVES
Patricia Darmon
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THE 'STILL, SMALL VOICE' THAT ROARED
BEVERLY FOLTZ
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THE FATHER I ALWAYS KNEW . . .
BECKY BUHL
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A PRAYERFUL ANTIDOTE TO CONTAMINATED FOOD
JILL AARON
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EFFECTS FROM DOG ATTACK HEALED THROUGH PRAYER
ROSEMARY PETZOLD
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CHILD'S RESPIRATORY ILLNESS QUICKLY CURED
LAURIE TOUPIN
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DISEASED EYE HEALED
JOHN CHRISTIAN HOYLE