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When applied to medicine, pathology is the study of the nature of disease and its causes.

Prayer for hostages

Whenever people are taken hostage, our hearts go out to them and to their families no matter where they are or who they are.
In this interview about the environment, Bill Moody, a teacher and practitioner of Christian Science shared with Sentinel radio host Russ Gerber how he would pray in the face of an environmental crisis.
I was finalizing the coursework I needed to graduate from college—at last!—when I discovered I needed one more elective.
When I was a kid, I used to think there were two versions of me: the physical me that my parents had made, and the parallel, perfect, spiritual version God had created.
Immigration is a huge global issue right now.

Giving that defeats poverty

If someone were poor, desperately poor, would inviting him or her to give away what little they had make them poorer still?
The pithy book of Proverbs in the Bible states flatly, “The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
I live in Mumbai, India, and have spent a lot of time thinking through spiritual ideas that uncover and eliminate poverty.
“Dear God, if you’ll just get us out of here safely, I promise I’ll never leave my house again,” my husband said as our taxi careened down the mountain road in the south of India.

A pilot's prayer for a safe landing

While I was getting a haircut recently, my stylist told me one of her colleagues had been killed in a car accident.
Like many people, I know what it's like to be in a difficult economic situation.