Editorial July 6, 1987 Issue

There is a battle at the crossroads

Allison W. Phinney, Jr.

As some of those American Civil War pastoral scenes remind us, a battle can be fought in deceptively calm fields under sunny skies.

Sometimes we'd prefer not to be told of such things— particularly if it's not a glamorous kind of conflict, with rousing, clear-cut victories. People tire easily of long-drawn-out efforts. Attention turns to another television channel with a less demanding story.

Many of us may have felt that way about those court cases in connection with Christian Scientist parents. Yet for nearly a decade now, court cases, public censure, and more recently even the threat of imprisonment, have been a daily way of life for a few Christian Scientists.

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