Editorial April 23, 1990 Issue

THINKING IT THROUGH

Why is it reasonable to expect that illness can be healed through prayer?

Allison W. Phinney, Jr.

In thinking about the question in the title, it may be helpful to admit that healing of illness through prayer isn't a very reasonable expectation if you believe that everything is pretty much as it appears to be.

If life is essentially material—a case of getting born as an amazingly complex material body and living until this machine, or body, stops working—then there's little reason to consider healing through any means other than material medicine.

But if life is greatly influenced by the thoughts people think and the good qualities of heart and mind they express, then there is reason to believe that the powerful kind of thought we call prayer would make a serious difference.

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