Article February 26, 2001 Issue

Un-shattering a faith

How one skeptic found something she could believe in

Many people accept, without hesitation, the existence of a Supreme Being. For others, the word God conjures up only negatives. Emily Laclau found herself in the rather ironic position of discovering that she didn't believe in God, as a result of a question she was asked in Sunday School. What followed was a spiritual journey.

Emily shared her thoughts in a recent broadcast of the Christian Science Sentinel—Radio Edition.

When I was about 11 or 12 years old, my Christian Science Sunday School teacher asked each of us to name one thing that we knew about God for sure. I couldn't think of anything. I kept thinking about what I was hearing, and everything that I'd been told my whole life, and I just couldn't decide what I knew for certain. I had just taken things in and never really thought about them, or tried to find out if they were true in my life.

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