The Christian Science Journal, Feb. 2006
I grew up a Muslim. In my homeland of Indonesia, Islam constitutes the majority religion. And in certain areas, such as the part of the country I’m originally from, religious tensions can easily mount because of extremists who tolerate no faith but their own.
While going to Islamic high school, I took a comparative religions class and learned about many faiths I had never heard of before. This education helped, because when I later moved to Jakarta to attend college, I began to search for a religion that would explain God and help me out of my problems.
Adedeh Malachi - Christian Science Sentinel, June 26, 2006
I grew up in a Pentecostal church where I was made to believe that our denomination was better than the other denominations around. But after becoming a student of Christian Science in my teens, I realized that we are different from each other only in the extent to which we embrace and practice the teachings of Jesus Christ. Healing as Jesus healed, or gaining dominion over sin, sickness, and death, is all that matters.
God is for us all; no one is ever excluded from the presence or the love of God. As St. Paul said to Christians at Rome: “For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved” (Rom. 10:12, 13). (more…)
Jeffrey Hildner talks with Colonel (Ret.) Janet Horton,
Endorser of Christian Science Chaplains for TMC
Reprinted from the May 20006 issue of the Christian Science Journal
Currently, the US Army has 1,400 clergy (most are Christian, about 30 are Jewish, and 15 are muslim), but as Mr. Jonsson reports, the top brass is aiming to recruit nearly 600 more chaplains to serve in the next five years. the following interview, Janet Horton, Endorser of Christian Science Chaplains for The Mother Church (TMC), addressed this urgent need in light of the special healing mission of Christian Science chaplains.
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