It
was in the pages of the Christian Science Sentinel that—ninety-two years ago—plans for the new Der Christian Science Herold in German were first made public.
The
more we hear about governmental problems, the more we may think that the last thing we need is government! Unfortunately, the very word government has come to represent, to many people, little that is likable and much that is unlikable.
As
reported in the "News & Commentary" column in this week's Sentinel, the former British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, presented a lecture last year titled "The Moral Foundations of Society.
The
heinous crimes that have occurred recently in places like Bosnia, Rwanda, Tokyo, and in Oklahoma have many Christians wrestling with the concept of forgiveness.
In
the face of a personal crisis or a larger disaster, like the bombing in Oklahoma City last April or the terrorist attacks on the Tokyo subway system, many issues obviously demand immediate attention.
Sometimes
a resolve to break out of old patterns of thought and behavior—to be different, to be new—can well up in us through a glimpse of our inherent purity and goodness as God's spiritual offspring.
