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Spinal meningitis healed
One day when I was 15 years old, I got a headache that grew progressively worse. My dad, who was not a Christian Scientist, called a physician, who told him to have me take two aspirins and call him in the morning. As I was in so much pain, I asked my mom to call a Christian Science practitioner. The last thing I remember before losing consciousness was asking her, “Did you call a practitioner?” and hearing her say, “Yes.”
Shortly after that, I went into a coma and was rushed to a hospital, where I was diagnosed as having a severe case of spinal meningitis. The doctors did not expect me to live. However, my mom continued working with the practitioner, until one day I woke up with all faculties and functions normal. This seemed to make quite a stir among the doctors. Several came to see me, and I remember one asking, “How did you do that?” On finding out that I was a Christian Scientist, they acknowledged that a healing had indeed taken place.

July 23, 2012 issue
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Letters
Steven Price, Blanche Saul, Candace Gibson
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Rejoicing together
Kim Shippey, Senior Staff Editor
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Borderless community
Walter Rodgers
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How big is good?
Nancy Mullen
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A rising tide lifts all boats
Jeff Ward-Bailey
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My first interfaith experience
Bonnie Mitchinson
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Embracing communities worldwide
Kim Shippey, Senior Staff Editor
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Climate change: What I could do
Elizabeth Graser-Lindsey
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Delight in international giving
Peter Dry
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Praying for a school community
Suzanne Smedley
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The grizzly bear delusion
Glenn Williams
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Salvation
Brian Kissock
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Unlimited resources
Heather Howland Kany
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Planted in a new path
Dorothy H. Thomson
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Love's leading
Tad Blake-Weber
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Seeking the way
Linda Gridley Lane
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The answer
Barbara Whitewater
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Solutions
Charlotte Bushnell
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Marjorie and the Dream
Phyllis W. Zeno
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Focused thought
Richard Albins
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God made you perfect
Megan Meehan
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What are you going to be when you grow up?
Leide Lessa
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Sign me up!
Bob Minnocci
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I shared with my professor
Bruce Matouka
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Your questions about church
Answers offered by Tim Myers and Michelle Nanouche
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'A spiritual model of life'
William Otieno
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The 'more excellent way'
Christa Kreutz
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Finding our God-given freedom
Ann Edwards
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A healing standard
Mark Sappenfield
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A summer of 'radical acts'
Jeff Ward-Bailey
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Lots of Laughs
Madora Kibbe
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Protected during a fall
Norma P. Cooper with contributions from Elizabeth Gibbons
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Chest pains overcome
B. James Jokerst
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Spinal meningitis healed
Charles O'Gorman
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Spine fracture healed
Brooks Rakos
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What makes you who you are?
The Editors