http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ChristianScienceIssues2/ Christian Science Issues Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:38:03 GMT Bill Sweet http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ChristianScienceIssues2/message/39530 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ChristianScienceIssues2/message/39530 Before "Matter of Conscience" were the "Kerry Letters." I have some new humor pieces I've added to my satires of the "Kerry Letters" and "Matters of Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:58:18 GMT vjonescole http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ChristianScienceIssues2/message/39529 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ChristianScienceIssues2/message/39529 Eric - I took my web site and blog down this summer. I wanted a sabbatical and a chance to rethink my approach in this day of Twitters and short attention Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:29:16 GMT Eric http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ChristianScienceIssues2/message/39528 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ChristianScienceIssues2/message/39528 I went looking for your site, CSFirstLessons, but can't find it anywhere. I do find numerous mentions of your book by that title. Are you no longer online with Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:03:54 GMT Eric http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ChristianScienceIssues2/message/39527 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ChristianScienceIssues2/message/39527 The Bible lesson, read aloud, is online at my site, linked below. But I had some challenges putting it up this week, from here in Mexico. So I put it up a Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:52:47 GMT Eric http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ChristianScienceIssues2/message/39526 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ChristianScienceIssues2/message/39526 I suspect you're right Richard, but I've not looked into it with any rigor. But there are church sociologists who study such things in a scholarly way, across Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:58:49 GMT Richard Clark http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ChristianScienceIssues2/message/39525 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ChristianScienceIssues2/message/39525 It just seems that the whole structure, from a growing church to a church that has started to deteriate so badly.   Personally, I think the rigidity at the Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:50:20 GMT Eric http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ChristianScienceIssues2/message/39524 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ChristianScienceIssues2/message/39524 Greetings from sunny Yucatan state, city of Merida. Regarding the decline of the Sentinel, it should be remembered that the entire editorial staff of Journal Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:37:14 GMT t4t http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ChristianScienceIssues2/message/39523 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ChristianScienceIssues2/message/39523 ... It happens all too frequently -- the whistleblower is ostracized [excommunictaed in this instance], but the points made in the objection ["complaint" in Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:20:22 GMT vjonescole http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ChristianScienceIssues2/message/39522 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ChristianScienceIssues2/message/39522 Thanks for the heads-up on The Banner issue. I agree that the change would be a victory for Elaine Natale Davidson. So many saw the problems, but someone in Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:57:49 GMT flightlevel5 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ChristianScienceIssues2/message/39521 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ChristianScienceIssues2/message/39521 I've never known this group to go silent for 14 days. Tis proof that none of us need to be stage center all of the time. That's a good thing! Some news from Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:14:51 GMT abigail_albert http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ChristianScienceIssues2/message/39520 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ChristianScienceIssues2/message/39520 http://www.watchkeepers.org/ News and Updates Friday, January 01, 2010 UPDATE Posted By Frank Sanders @ 11:03 AM :: EXTEMPORE January 1, 1910 I O blessings Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:20:30 GMT Richard http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ChristianScienceIssues2/message/39519 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ChristianScienceIssues2/message/39519 The first scripture reference given for the chapter "The Apocalypse" the Key to the Scriptures in Science and Health is Verse 3 Revelations: "Blessed is he Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:14:27 GMT Eric http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ChristianScienceIssues2/message/39518 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ChristianScienceIssues2/message/39518 I've added a musical prelude to this week's Bible lesson in the form of a powerfully-performed choral piece entitled BEHOLD, AN ANCIENT VOICE IS CALLING, sung Fri, 25 Dec 2009 14:53:19 GMT Eric http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ChristianScienceIssues2/message/39517 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ChristianScienceIssues2/message/39517 Let us now transition from "the complaint" to THE GIFT! Today a friend has posted a short essay by William Samuel titled The Gift. (Samuel man was in the Thu, 24 Dec 2009 20:56:05 GMT mhnlm http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ChristianScienceIssues2/message/39516 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ChristianScienceIssues2/message/39516 In contrast with the notion depictingthe perspective of personal sense that Christ ? Truth, is "somethingelse", which needs to be sought, followed, and