In the Christian Science Bible Lesson

Because of poverty, injustice, racial unrest, and violent crime in our cities, we hear people say, "I can't go out at night" or "I do not go out at night.

Beyond Appearances

Merely the way people look often prejudices others in favor of them or against them.

Resolving Difficulties

In recent years my husband and I bought a lovely house in an all white neighborhood.

A Good Neighbor

Urban and suburban dwellers generally find themselves being drawn closer and closer together by today's unrelenting growth in population.
Christ Jesus' clear sense of the timelessness of true being freed him from material limitations and gave him the power to heal and regenerate those who came to him for help.

Robin Doesn't Give Up

Yum-Yum was a friendly gray cat with heavy thick fur.

Neither Coming nor Going

How many times have you stood in an airport fearful about whether or not you were going to get on standby?

Wagons and Stars

"Hitch your wagon to a star," American Civilization; was Ralph Waldo Emerson's advice.

Spring Violets

As a small girl I eagerly anticipated the arrival of each spring because that was when the violets bloomed in the woods behind our house.

To Learn Means to Change

Much of the struggle today is about learning—how to learn, what to learn, and what value to place on what we learn.
"If only I had a different job or lived in a different neighborhood or could locate in a different climate!" Such complaints are common enough, as if merely moving one's body would of itself bring the desired results.

Hair

A friend recently telephoned to ask me to see his son, a student at Harvard.