Article August 7, 1995 Issue

Engaging the community

by Kim Shippey

In March a former computer industry executive, Reed Harris, spoke to an audience in a high-school auditorium, and suggested that while many people said they trusted God, their hopes were actually invested in other people, in conflicting "expert" opinion, or in government. Yet, said Mr. Harris, a member of The Christian Science Board of Lectureship, if people would return their trust to the one all-powerful God, good, to govern their lives, they would find the truth that makes people free—the truth that heals.

What made this Christian Science lecture unusual was that Mr. Harris, who is a Christian Science practitioner, was introduced by someone with different views on health care. She's Dr. Lisa Stone, a medical internist who is married to a cardiologist. Both her father and grandfather were physicians.

In her introduction to the lecture, Dr. Stone made it clear that she holds to traditional medical theories and practice in a very concrete way that makes sense to her. She said: "I have experienced, firsthand, proof of many of the theories, and have witnessed many dramatic and thrilling 'cures.' I have also seen many failures, and asked many unanswered questions. Unexplainable or miraculous cures, as well as unexplainable or disastrous failures, are not unheard of in the practice of medicine. This frustration with some of the shortcomings of traditional medicine, as well as the recent surge of public interest in nontraditional approaches to wellness and illness, undoubtedly contributed to my own curiosity surrounding Christian Science and spiritual healing."

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