In the Christian Science Bible Lesson

The Sentinel asks . . ."What is evil?"

I define evil as the acts of people against people, or things which are hurtful.

Evil personified?

One of the most difficult things to deal with spiritually is the belief that evil can be a person.

Deliver us from . . .

The chronology of a struggle with dark thoughts.
Events happen in this world that reason and science and emotion and humanity cannot excuse or define, and only faith can stand between survival and submission.

When evil takes the form of disease

For today's society, one of the most hopeful aspects of scientific Christianity is its ability to effectively heal people of physical disease and impairment.

Evil comes in many forms. Some look pretty enticing; some you can even dance to. But it's always a vacuum.

Through a spiritual lens—

A bush pilot was willing to fly the reporter and me north and drop us for a few days in the center of a small Vietnamese town—a town, we were told, that had been completely surrounded by Viet Cong guerrillas, but had never been disturbed.
When you pray in times of fear, you bring a conviction of security into the picture that's more than just theoretical.
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The classic 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz offers helpful insight into the nature of evil and the method for successfully combating it.

The Sentinel asks . . . "What is evil?"

Evil has no face, sound, or name.

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