Article June 11, 2007 Issue

AWAKENED TO A WORLD CRYING OUT FOR HEALING

WARREN BOLON with contributions from MICHAEL PABST, MARGARET ROGERS, MARY (TRINKA) TRAMMELL

How does a course in theology and healing practice equip one to follow Christ Jesus' counsel to "go ... into all the world" and heal humanity's many hurts? To find out, we explored the impact of Primary class instruction with three Christian Science practitioners and teachers: MICHAEL PABST from the New York City area, MARGARET ROGERS of the San Francisco area, and MARY (TRINKA) TRAMMELL, who lives in the Boston area and is Editor in Chief of the Christian Science periodicals. They talked with Sentinel senior writer WARREN BOLON

How did Primary class instruction prepare you to be a healer in the world—not a healer only for yourself and those close to you?

Michael Pabst: I grew up in a Christian Science Sunday School, where I learned all the wonderful and beloved stories in the Bible—about Daniel in the lions' den, David and Goliath, the three men in the fiery furnace, the healings of Jesus, and so forth. But I learned them as isolated events. It wasn't until I was in my late teens and read the Bible through as a whole book that I began to realize that there's progression in the Bible. I also read other supportive material, in particular Marchette Chute's The Search for God. Reading that book, along with reading the whole Bible, gave me the context of how a people's concept of God evolved over the course of many centuries. All of a sudden, the Bible came to life for me.

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