Articles & Testimonies
Open Letter from Dr. John Near – Departure from Principia College Faculty – Part I
December 3, 2013 Dear Friends of Principia, I understand that my name and the underlying reason for my departure from the Principia College faculty recently came up in an open forum of Faculty Senate. To clarify the situation, I am distributing this...
25 Responses to Dr. John Near’s “Open Letter to the Principia Community,” – Part II
25 Responses to “Open Letter to the Principia Community,” December 3, 2013 1. Thanks for ensuring I got this letter. To be honest, the homosexuality policy was the biggest stumbling block to my accepting the job here. I believe that it is wrong, harmful on many...
Leaving it to God—or to chance?
As an undergraduate at Rochester Institute of Technology, I was required to take a course in statistical analysis. Although the course was rather forgettable, one concept intrigued me: “Poisson Probability,” the work of Siméon-Denis Poisson in the 1830s. Poisson was...
Bless These Hands
Bless These Hands By Rev. Paul Lachlan Peck, I Universe, (Psalm 90:17) 7,7,7,7 Bless these hands, O Lord, that work In the vineyard day by day; May they never idly shirk From the tasks within the Way. Keep my motives pure and clear, Keep my heart in loving Grace; Keep...
“The Coming”
Music: G. Mantle-Childe Words: Rosa Maude Turner Submitted By Ed Helms Christ comes as softly as the Springtime's dawning Unfolding tender joys from day to day; Christ comes as surely as the light of morning Rolls the dark curtain of the night away. Christ comes as...
Hymn #412
“When i'm feeling lost, marginalized, ignored, attacked, I find great solace in hymn #412 from the Christian Science Hymnal. It's a beautiful prayer that we can use to combat the darkness we sometimes fall in when the hate is just too much or when we're feeling very...
Love, and love-me support systems
Love cannot possess; neither can it be possessed. Yet so many people attempt to buy and sell love as they would buy and sell stock in the marketplace. Quite a remarkable woman, Mary Baker Eddy who founded Christian Science, wrote much about Love. She said, "Love is...
Balancing the physical with Soul
I learned that material food can never solve emotional and mental problems. Yet, how many people attempt to eat their way out of grief, dismay, fear, discouragement, disappointment, and despair? There was a time when I realized that I was carrying around more matter...
“Time, the world’s greatest illusion”
What if you were to resolve things into thoughts and not think of a sunset as a daily event which takes place at a predictable time, but as an experience, a different dimension, unbounded by time; a quality of beauty and not a predictable, measured event? Wouldn’t...
Tchaikovsky’s Attempted Suicide
The following was sent in by Doug Hart from a recent program guide for the Seattle Symphony - Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto Opus 35. Doug also added some personal comments. The purpose is to raise awareness and prevention and serves as a reminder that suicide is an...