An inclusive organization

By Lindsay Pope—Westwood, Massachusetts

I had always planned on playing an active role in a Christian Science organization at college. With three other colleges and a university in the area of my own school, I expected to find a large

I group of Christian Scientists when I was a freshman at Mount Holyoke last year. But, as the year progressed, I found that there were only two other women who wanted to participate in a CSO. This surprised me. As a result, my friend Lauren and I began to questions and redefine its purpose at our school.

What both of us realized was that an insular Christian Science organization—one that welcomed only Christian Scientists—would never work on our campus, and, perhaps, should never have been what we thought the membership of a CSO should be like in the first place. After all, we both talked every day with friends and strangers who clearly felt passionate about living a spiritually grounded life. I was especially inspired by a Buddhist ethics class I took first semester. Each person's religious background was extremely unique; yet when we came together, we realized we all believed in living compassionately, and that there is some sort of divine Force.

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