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INTERVIEW

Spiritual healing: a conversation with Earline Shoemake

From the October 2003 issue of The Christian Science Journal


Christian Science practitioner, teacher, and lecturer lives in a short drive from San Diego and the Mexican border. The mother of four grown children, she has traveled far and wide to preach the healing gospel, but southern California is home. "If you like the country, there's a place for you to go with chickens and horses walking down the street, or you can go to the snow in the mountains, or you can go to the beach at the ocean ... it's paradise," Earline told the Journal's They spoke together recently about spiritual healing.

Let's start by talking about miracles. According to Christian Science, miracles are divinely natural, scientific phenomena. All kinds of wonderful things, including healing, can happen every day to everyone. Could you help explain how this is so?

As I was growing up, occasionally I would hear about something that was a miracle. You'd hear about something happening to someone that was so amazing, so good, that it seemed like it could only be explained by some sort of divine magic. I used to think of the healings in the Bible by Jesus and his disciples that way.

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