Article October 30, 2000 Issue

Science and Health: Voices from today 2000

with contributions from Doug Jenkins, Tracey Walter, Sofia Roda, Peter Kisamba, Tina T. Saxon, Shelly Angel, Gennadi Vasilievich Shtscherbanev, Annu Matthai, Diana Mabel Dreyzin Schiazzano, Margo Degroot, Karl S. Sandberg, Jr., Helen Ostenberg Elswit, Tom Woodward, Rick Colby, Don Houge, Mindy Jostyn, Bruce Hornsby, Heidi Skok, Graciela Risso Etchegaray, Maria de los Angeles Chong Huerta, Olaf Bremer, Marjorie Lord Volk, Yoshikazu Hoshimi, Dulcinéa B. Bueno Torres, Décio G. Colombini, Jillie Periton, Frank Fong

I'm not generally a settled person; I'm on fire all the time. But when I understand things, I find peace. So if there is a God, if there is sense to the universe, I need to spend my time trying to understand that. And Science and Health explains it to me.

Doug Jenkins
Former professional race car driver
Chesterfield, Missouri

One thing I appreciate about Science and Health is the view of God it presents. There's such a prevalent view these days of God as a "celestial butler." It's as though He were a big guy up in the sky somewhere who will do things for you if you pray hard enough. But that's not the view you get from reading Science and Health. It says, "The Christian Science God is universal, eternal, divine Love, which changeth not and causeth no evil, disease, nor death" (p. 140). ... If we want to be able to heal and be healed, we have to get beyond the idea of God as a "butler."