Article January 30, 1989 Issue

Think what has happened

In the Preface to Science and Health, Mary Baker Eddy writes, "The time for thinkers has come." Science and Health, p. vii. With all that has been said publicly about Christian Science healing over the last few months, real thinkers have never been more needed than now.

Many millions of people in the United States saw a segment about Christian Science on the CBS program 60 Minutes last December 4. That program raised, but by no means answered, some tough questions about what spiritual healing is, what it means, and what it requires.

Why would loving parents rely on spiritual means for healing a seriously ill child? How could the prosecutor relentlessly set out to punish the parents, since a state law protects spiritual healing? Why would an entire Church go on supporting spiritual healing for children in today's secular climate, impacting as it does on denominational "image"?

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