“Imagine for yourself,” said Greek philosopher Epictetus, “a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
When a first date took her to the Christian Science Sunday School, she didn’t know what to expect. What she found was the truth—and it changed her life.
What’s with all Mary Baker Eddy’s statements about the “nothingness” and “unreality” of evil? Did she mean we should just turn a blind eye to the bad stuff? On the contrary, Mrs. Eddy expected Christian Scientists to be actively praying for our world, and her statements about evil give us the tools to do so.