How I Found Christian Science April 11, 2011 Issue

I attend a different church—and love Christian Science

Rebecca Dragon —Glastonbury, Connecticut, US

I have a very long history with “religion” and trying to figure things out. While I was growing up, our family had “visits” from Santa and the Easter Bunny, but talk of God and religion was not a part of our home. I was adopted as an infant, and knew that there was Judaism in my biological background, and so had some interest, but I wasn’t encouraged to pursue it. Religion was viewed as something that you made a decision about later in life, when you were grown. 

Enter Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. When I was 21, fresh out of college and on my own in Los Angeles, I checked it out from the library. My lack of understanding or belief in the Christ prevented my eyes from being open to it at that time, so I just returned the book to the library unread. From this point, I began my long winding path toward God, His Christ, and what it meant to walk with God.

When I was first out of college, I became a born-again Christian, then would swing like a pendulum between that theology to Orthodox Judaism and Messianic Judaism in between. I became known as a flip-flopper to those who did not understand my inability to stay and be settled with one religious expression or another. To those who had more compassion for my journey, I was seen as a passionate seeker of Truth, even if they thought this search would be to my own detriment.

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