In the Christian Science Bible Lesson

Blacks … Whites … Overcoming prejudice

Daniel Mfumu Mawonzi

Confronted by negative thoughts about his own skin color, this traveler prayed with the ideas he’d learned in Christian Science and was able to “cherish the idea that skin [color] was unable at any moment to become an obstacle and to keep us from expressing spiritual qualities.”

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Different is good

Jenny Sawyer

In college, this author was called “different” when she chose not to drink. But “different,” she discovered, wasn’t a bad thing.

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Turn off the noise

Mark Catlin

When flu symptoms became a problem for this counselor and several others on staff, he found a powerful antidote to the belief of contagion by “tuning in” to God’s reassurances of health and safety.

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Listening to, and loving, one another

Kevin Graunke

The Greek philosopher Epictetus said, “We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

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The power in welcoming alternative views

The Monitor’s Editorial Board

Perhaps no other part of US government has had to learn the value of encouraging differing points of views—and then listening to them—as much as the Central Intelligence Agency.