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ANYONE CAN BE A HEALER
LOVE'S COMPLETE PROVISION
OHIO WAS HOME BASE when I was growing up, but because my parents were history professors, Fulbright scholars, our family frequently lived overseas. My mother was a Christian Scientist. There was no question in my mind that God healed. Wherever we traveled, we always turned to God, and our needs were met by evidence of divine Love in our lives, including a sense of safety and protection, and of being at home. Because of Love's provision and Love's comforting presence, I never felt away from home.
What propelled me into becoming a Christian Science practitioner was a period of intense study of this Science while in graduate school in Geneva. With all our moving around, I didn't have a lot of experience attending church, and although I'd always called myself a Christian Scientist, I asked myself if I really knew what that meant. For a six-month period when I was in my early 20s, I devoured the Bible, reading it straight through, along with Mary Baker Eddy's writings, biographies of her, and histories of the church. I also began regularly attending the Sunday and Wednesday services at a local branch of The Mother Church.

September 24, 2007 issue
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LETTERS
with contributions from DANIEL OTIENO OKELLO, SALLY ALLAN, MARY MARSTON, VICKI KNICKERBOCKER, MELODY RAY CULP
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If not age, what does define us?
PATRICIA KADICK, STAFF EDITOR
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ITEMS OF INTEREST
with contributions from David M. Brown, Eric Gorski, Trevor Tompson
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AGELESS AT ANY STAGE
BY JIM THURMAN
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DETERIORATION ISN'T INEVITABLE
BY JEAN WHITEHEAD
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'EXTREME GRANDMA'
BY VICKI A. TURPEN
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PAS DE DIEU
TEXT AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY TONY LOBL
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Lessons from the Rwandan genocide
BY ABRAHAM MCLAUGHLIN
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Perfect pictures
TEXT AND IMAGES BY ASHTON JACKSON
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Centered in Him
Melissa Baker
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LOVE'S COMPLETE PROVISION
VERONICA RAGATZ
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GOD FOSTERS EVERYONE
VALERIE MINARD
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HELP AGAINST THE PULL OF SUICIDE
RUTH WALKER
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RESTORED TRUST IN CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
JEFFREY SLAUGHTER
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A SURE HEALING METHOD
CYNTHIA CLAGUE
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PROTECTED FROM INJURY
RICHARD PHILLIPPS with contributions from CHRISTINE PHILLIPPS