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Medical ethics

Editor's note: "The wise builders will build on the stone at the head of the corner; and so Christian Science, the little leaven hid in three measures of meal,—ethics, medicine, and religion,—is rapidly fermenting, and enlightening the world with the glory of untrammelled truth".

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Highest and best use of our lives

Terri Higgins Murdock

What a relief to begin to understand that there is no competition in God's kingdom!

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The light so necessary to Christian healing

Melissa Mills Talbot

My prayers often did not seem to be answered, and I felt afraid of being lost and losing good. That afternoon I faced that fear. Was I lost? No. Were God and His goodness still here? Of course.

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My little adventure

Deborah D. Totterdale

When I was eight years old, my family moved to a new neighborhood.

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No other gods

Allison H. DeMarkles

Turning to gambling as a means of gain necessarily involves a turning away from the only provider, the one true substance, God. Looked at frankly, gambling, or chance-taking, is a form of idolatry.

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Governed by law, not chance

"When someone wins the lottery or does well at a casino, how do you know that isn't God's doing?

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Don't gamble with your integrity

Harriet Barry Schupp

Can we embrace, even momentarily, both chance and divine order?

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Finding time by finding peace

Suzanne B. Soule

If we love even a little more than the day before, we should feel a sense of accomplishment.

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An open letter from a shortwave listener

I think that you will be interested to know that I am one of those who came into Christian Science as a result of listening to the shortwave broadcasts of the Christian Science Sentinel, The Herald of Christian Science, and the Sunday service from The Mother Church.

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Rewards from an honest look within

Ralph W. Emerson

I once thought the term self-knowledge just meant making the effort to know my true, Godlike self. But then I realized it must mean taking a hard look at what I'm currently manifesting, good or bad, in terms of qualities of thought, attitudes, and morals.