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Consulting the pastor
I thought, when I attended a Sunday service with my grandmother at her branch Church of Christ, Scientist, that the church had no pastor—just two people reading from two books. That seemed a bit unusual to me, but what was read from those books caught my attention to the point where I wanted to learn more.
One of those books was the Bible (which I had a copy of), but I wasn’t familiar with the other book. Then one day on my way to my summer job, instead of just walking by the Christian Science Reading Room as I had done many times before, I stopped to view the window display. It featured those two books open side by side with passages marked in each—passages that spoke together as a singular, very engaging, message—and I went in to explore.

January 15, 2018 issue
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From the readers
Kaarin Brown, Ann Hanson
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A spiritual view of individuality
Mark Swinney
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Looking and longing for companionship?
Patricia Gantt Reiman
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Safe in divine Love’s ‘comfort zone’
Terese Reiter Messman
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God preserves us
Louis E. Benjamin
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Never unwanted
Elisabeth Groß
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Child’s burn healed
Clementine Lue Clark
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Confronting obscenity
Christine Jenks Driessen
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Persistent hip pain healed
Consuela H. Allen
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Rhythm of Life
Christian Pascale
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Life’s abundance
Lindsey Roder
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Latin America’s anti-graft earthquake
The <i>Monitor’s</i> Editorial Board
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Is truth dead?
Rosalie E. Dunbar
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Consulting the pastor
Barbara Vining