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Lifting gloom

J. Thomas Black

At a time when the light of Christ is commemorated, many people feel a great darkness. What can help us awake to the presence of Christ today?

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Conversations on healing

In a continuation of last week's interviews, several Christians actively engaged in a healing ministry discuss their approach to spiritual healing.

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The sustaining power of moral courage

Marcia Page Wiesendanger

A deep calm in the midst of trouble isn't a matter of enduring wrongs. It's characteristic of the spiritual strength leading us to victory.

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Second Thought

From The New York Times, September 29, 1986

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Drugs—does paradise come in a pill?

Judith H. Hedrick

After a "bad trip," a young woman learned that drug-induced insights are more like hell than paradise. To leave the habit behind she found she needed the regeneration and light that only Christ can bring.

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Sons of God—now!

E. Merritt Weidner

A soldier finds an understanding of his sonship with God not only brings healing, it brings the strength to help others in his unit.

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Conversations on healing

"What do you feel it was about Jesus that enabled him to heal so effectively?" "How would you describe the growth of the healing movement within Christian churches in recent years?" These are just a few of the questions discussed in these interviews with a number of Christians who are not Christian Scientists but who are deeply concerned with healing through prayer.

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Who was Zacchaeus?

Stephen Gottschalk

A grown-up who climbed trees?

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Release from pain

David C. Kennedy

No one has to live with pain. God, who is divine Love, lifts the burden of both pain and fear.

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Welcome the Xanthippes

Barbara Cook

Loving someone we feel has betrayed us can seem hard. But Christ Jesus showed us it can be done, and we learn this spiritual love by practicing it even in the smallest disagreements with family or friends or neighbors.