How I Found Christian Science December 28, 2015 ISSUE

Made new

James Dylan Held

I was raised in a Christian home, but one that did not take religion very seriously. When I was about 18, my stepdad suggested that it would make my grandma—his mother—very happy if I would accompany her to church once in a while. My grandmother was a Christian Scientist, and on one of her visits I did take her to church, the local branch Church of Christ, Scientist. I do not recall being particularly inspired at the time, but since I really loved this grandma, I continued to go with her when she visited. And after a while, when I was in my first year of community college, I began attending the Sunday School, in the college-age class.

I started asking my Sunday School teacher lots of questions about Christian Science. Questions such as, “Why would anyone rely only on God for healing?” And comments such as, “I’m as dumb as a post, and don’t know how I can ever expect to get through college.” (That was a big thing with me because no one had expected me to even go to college.) But this dear woman would not hear of my being dumb! A transformation gradually began to take place in my thinking.

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