Church of Christ, Scientist

Mr. and Mrs. Anderson are a very active couple in their mid-thirties. Mr. Anderson is a carpenter and enjoys building wood furniture by hand for designers, and Mrs. Anderson is a field hockey player coach at a local college as well as a player. Both Mr. and Mrs. Anderson want to have their own child, but have not had any luck over the course of a year. They decided it was best to talk to a reproductive endocrinologist, and after months of testing, they couple still had no luck. The couple’s reproductive endocrinologist, Dr. Wells, suggested to the Anderson’s to try in vitro fertilization in order to have a baby. Anxious to begin the in vitro fertilization process, the Anderson’s also began to look into preimplantation genetic testing because they had heard of a couple who had a baby born with inherited defects in both of its’ hands as well as an atrial septal defect. This is when a hole is in the wall between the two upper chambers a heart, the atria. This happens at birth and the defect can sometimes close on its own as the baby gets older. Both Mr. and Mrs. Anderson were highly concerned that the possibility of a child born with a heart defect would affect the child’s ability to be athletic, in Mrs. Anderson’s defense, or to be able to work with its hands, in Mr. Anderson’s defense. The couple’s reproductive endocrinologist, Dr. Wells, was considerate of the couple’s request, but was hesitant about removing embryos with mutations that could possibly lead to minor…

Christian Science religion, based on the metaphysical New Thought movement, in 1879 (Christian Science, “What is Christian Science?”). For individuals who are born into the modern Christian Science church, understanding the concept of “divinity” in the…

Age has always been an issue of mind over matter. Just as age is not limited by how one looks or feels, imagination does not either. It is often the case that age limits imagination, but that is not the true. No one can blame themselves for wanting that sense of creativity to live within for as long as possible, which is exactly how Alice felt throughout her journey. In The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll uses references to his own past, Alice’s change in size, and imagery to…

trip she took the was the most special to her. It was 1990and she took a trip to Haiti for a mission trip to assist an orphanage. She described the trip as very different and that she was moved by compassion as she noticed the extreme poverty on the island. Nonetheless, she was impressed by the skills like reading and writing of the Haitian people even though they lacked school training. As we continued are interview I then asked about accomplishments she has gained that she is really proud of…

Cecil Robeck’s The Azusa Street Mission and Revival offers the response of on African American church to the social and religious segregation we learned from last weeks reading of Methodists and the Crucible of Race. As a licensed Nazarene pastor, I enjoyed that we were also given a reading that revealed the Holiness movement’s response to the dark times of segregation in our country. In The Azusa Street Mission and Revival Cecil Robeck’s explains that the worship practices of the black church…

Charles Demuth, called “Deem” by his friends, was the only child of Ferdinand and Augusta Demuth. When Charles was four, he fell and broke his hip. While he was bed-bound because of the injury, his mother presented him with his first art supplies. It was then that his love for art began. Charles' injury caused him to become lame. He was close to both parents, but especially to his mom because of his physical frailty. When Charles was at school, he hung out with the girls because they were not…

Have you ever come across someone who couldn’t want anything more than for people to stop judging each other by color, religion or origin? Well, if you have, I guarantee they’re not as dedicated as Barrack Obama is to creating a society that is equal in all aspects. In “A More Perfect Union”, Obama expresses that people should not be focused on physical or background differences, they should be focusing on the issues that we all face in society. The issues such as, schools, healthcare and jobs.…

Throughout the longevity of the well leaded campaign by presidential candidate Barack Obama, all things seemed to be only headed in a positive direction for Obama in this moment of the election. However, running for presidency also includes the actions of family members and friends; but in the case Presidential candidate Obama’s pastor Reverend Wright. Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Pastor of Trinity United Church Of Christ criticized the U.S government by making remarks like It was America’s fault…

true. The Mormon culture believes their faith and religion was founded by a man named Joseph Smith, who at the age of fourteen, realized he did not agree with any denomination of Christianity. They believe that Smith had a vison from God telling him not to join any of the churches, but to wait. A few years later, Joseph Smith was appointed by an angel; Moroni. Moroni was supposedly the son of Mormonism, and he came to Smith with news that he was chosen to translate the book of Mormon. They…

The day is August 8, 1844. Six weeks have passed since the martyrdom of the Prophet Joseph Smith. The shocked and grieving Quorum of the Twelve with their president, Brigham Young, have recently returned from missions. A large public meeting has been assembled with one main purpose: determine by vote who will be granted the right and responsibility to lead the Church.(source?) The ballot centers between Sidney Rigdon, First Counselor in the FIrst Presidency, and the Quorum of the Twelve with…