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Whether I spent it in my grandparents' house in San Francisco as a child, in a storybook setting Europe as a young mother, or in the heat of Melbourne, Australia, I've always loved Christmas. To me...

Prayer–almost everybody does it. Even in the United States, over 80 percent of people polled by the Barna Research Group in September reported that they pray. And in Frontlines this month you'll fi...

Wanting to get more involved in my community, I accepted the job of vice-president of the PTA (Parent-Teacher Association) for my son's elementary school. It promised to be an exciting year, and an...

I couldn't move or even breathe without pain. I was praying and was talking daily with a Christian Science practitioner who was giving me treatment. But I felt stuck in the pain and couldn't get ou...

When I first sat down to write an introduction to this issue on addiction, I found myself drawing a blank. After all, I don't think of myself as someone with any firsthand knowledge of substance ab...

As a nursery rhyme has reminded generations of children, gardens do grow. Neighborhoods are a little different, though. They tend to grow as you and I do—or as our concept of them grows. Your neigh...

Many years ago I was asked to write an article about Christmas for translation into Japanese for the article on Christian Science in The Christian Science Monitor. But this was August, and there wa...

Shops and homes sparkling with lights. Friendly hellos in the supermarkets. People smiling. To me, this is a clear indication that Christmas is at hand.This season of the year is filled with lovely...

Imagine, if you will, a world in which there are no airplanes, no telephones, no Internet websites. A world where international communication is slow and uncertain, where international friendships...