Editorials

A Christian Scientist tells of an experience he had when swimming. He was caught in a seining net and drawn underwater.

A few years ago I happened to be in Greece at Easter time. The family I was with wanted me to experience the full joy of the Easter celebration, so they took me up to a high place overlooking the city of Athens.

In today's marketplace of sophisticated high-tech medicine, it could seem naive even to raise the question about whether it is necessary to have a thorough knowledge of sickness. Medical practice asserts that the more information a physician and patient can have concerning the detailed physical causes, action, reaction, and symptoms of a disease, the greater is the likelihood of effecting a cure.

A short answer to the question "What is scientific Christianity" might be "It's the Christianity Jesus practiced. " In other words, it's the appearing again in human experience of Jesus' kind of Christianity.

At times there's a strange paradox that confronts people in the search to make sense of their existence. Naturally, in the attempt to find a reason and purpose for living, men and women have long been drawn to religion.

The Bible has a singular place in the Church of Christ, Scientist. Of course this isn't surprising to anyone who is familiar with Christian Science.

Sometimes we may be tempted to suppose we automatically have Christian Science because we are church members or we've been studying Christian Science for a while. Yet the truth is we have Christian Science only to the extent that we've actively replaced old thought with new.

One of the great challenges—and blessings—that the original Christianity of the New Testament still presents to human thinking is in the continuing demand to move beyond mere religiosity in our worship of God. Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, the textbook of Christian Science, contains a section specifically on theology See Science and Health, pp.

Every generation has events to face—dramatic issues that leave sharp impressions. For my grandparents, it was World War I, tuberculosis, a worldwide epidemic of influenza, and the beginning of their children's move away from the farm.

A story is told about the famous astrophysicist, Freeman Dyson, when he met a marine biologist during a trip along the coast of British Columbia a number of years ago. As the two men were discussing their work, Dyson's fourteen-year-old daughter, Emily, was listening to everything.