Spiritual Journeys December 15, 2025 Issue

I married him anyway!

Irene L. Alley

When I was in college, I met an attractive young man from a nearby college. One night, after we had been dating for a few months, I found out that he was a Christian Scientist. What a disappointment! Weren’t Christian Scientists those people who didn’t believe in doctors?

When I went back to my dorm, I woke my roommate up and gave her the bad news. Her reply: “It’s not the end of the world. Could we leave it until the morning?”

The next day, she, more open-minded than I, went to the library and brought back the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, and we both started reading it. I loved the first chapter, “Prayer.” It speaks of a God who is very different from the one I had learned about in my church’s Sunday School.

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