UPFRONT March 31, 2008 Issue

A healthy curiosity

WARREN BOLON, SENIOR WRITER

Many children have a hunger to know how things work. I did as a kid, but I wasn't all that curious about the usual things like how motors run, why the sky is blue, or when the dinosaurs disappeared from Earth. Those things were interesting, but by the time I was in my teens a deeper curiosity had begun growing in me—I wanted to know what God is and does, and what understanding His nature better would do to better the world. Soon after starting my first full-time job as a publications editor, I also pursued this deeper curiosity by taking Christian Science class instruction.

I see plenty of common ground for the spiritually curious in Tom Black's article this week, "Education with a healing purpose." Tom has found that Christian Science "satisfies the spiritually inquisitive human thought .... It gives answers that are logical enough to enable sincere, earnest students to modestly repeat the healing events of Biblical giants."

Check out, too, what Reid Charlston, a school teacher in Elgin, Illinois, has to say about how Christian Science class instruction gave him "a concrete framework for how to be a spiritual healer," and how gaining this framework has compelled him "to put my prayers to the test in praying for challenges in my life, the community around me, and the whole world."

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