Editorials

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.

When Christ Jesus founded his church on the rock of Christ, he immediately proclaimed its inviolate nature with the words "And the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. " Matt.

God's first creative words, as recorded in the Bible, were "Let there be light. "   Gen.

It is a conviction that permeates the writings of the woman who discovered and founded Christian Science: we live in a time of massive, significant transition for mankind. "Truth's immortal idea," Mary Baker Eddy writes, "is sweeping down the centuries, gathering beneath its wings the sick and sinning.

The birth of Jesus is one of the most improbable stories. Think of all the unlikely events that were part of it.