Oklahoma City—a better response than anger

In a recent program, Russ Gerber, host of the Christian Science Sentinel—Radio Edition, spoke with Walter Jones, a Christian Science practitioner in the midwestern United States, about the bombing in Oklahoma City.

Russ Gerber: When we look at the things before us these days, we sometimes just feel overwhelmed with anger. How do we rid ourselves of that feeling when it seems there's so much that justifies being angry?

Walter Jones: Anger can feel like a natural, almost uncontrollable, passion or emotion as we try to come to grips with some actual or perceived wrong. In the case of the Oklahoma bombing, with so many innocent children and adults having been killed, the act was certainly wicked and outrageous. But as I think about anger—which we all have felt at one time or another—what does it accomplish? It seems to me it diverts us from what's most needed.

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