From the Editors April 7, 2014 Issue

Marathon prayer

The Editors

As the Boston Marathon approaches, thoughts turn again to the bombing at last year’s event. Tragedies such as the Newtown, Connecticut, shootings, and other examples of violence have also been in the news.

These events would argue that evil can triumph over good. Yet a close look at the facts reveals strength instead of weakness, courage instead of fear—in short, the presence of the Christ-spirit.

At last year’s marathon, people did everything they could to help one another. The Connecticut state attorney’s report on the school shootings at Newtown on December 14, 2012, makes a similar point. Teachers responded promptly when the school-wide intercom system was turned on “seemingly inadvertently,” and they were able to get many children to safety. Protection through spiritual intuition guided a late-working employee in Boston to avoid an area of Cambridge where the marathon bombers were on the run.

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