Article September 18, 1989 Issue

Letters to the Press

FROM THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATION

James H. Meyer

Increasingly, parents, students, and educators are concluding that an essential part of education is learning how to grapple with and understand the issues of our time. High-school students are frequently aware of—and often deeply concerned with—a range of issues, both global and personal. Many are also quietly (and courageously) wrestling with spiritual questions, including the very nature of God and His relevance to their own everyday experience.

So when an editorial in a high-school paper in Colorado addressed the question of religion and the care of children, it seemed natural for one of the other students, a senior who was a Christian Scientist, to do some research of her own. In this case, feeling that more balance and perspective were needed, she also got in touch with her state's Committee on Publication and later shared his letter with the school paper, where it was published this spring.

A four-month-old girl became ill with a heart condition (fibroelastosis). The attending doctors said the condition was incurable and they didn't know any case in which the patient had lived to normal years.

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