Editorial April 15, 1985 ISSUE

The richest experience

ALLISON W. PHINNEY

The community education catalog that came in the mail the other day offered an astonishing array of classes—everything from small boat navigation to real estate investing. An advertisement for continuing education at a local university lists, among scores of others, courses in political science, publishing, film, and Middle Eastern history. But long before educational opportunity was taken for granted, spiritual education was given a significant place in Christian Science by its Founder, Mary Baker Eddy.

She coupled church with an educational system that would be a never-ending source of fresh spiritual drive and would also make an entirely lay membership more uniformly knowledgeable about their own theology than would be the case in most other churches.

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