Article January 18, 2010 ISSUE

A REASON FOR HOPE

BY NATE TALBOT

SOME YEARS AGO, a friend asked what I thought was going to happen to the Christian Science movement. He was worried about empty church pews and so forth. I almost felt a little embarrassed to express my deep-rooted feeling of hopefulness about the Cause of Christian Science. This may have sounded just a little naive in the face of the evidence he was considering.

Such conversations about Christian Science and the fulfillment of its mission in the world have forced some self-examination to understand this genuine hope. I can't ever remember worrying about whether Christian Science is going to succeed.