In our March issue we published excerpts from a talk given by the Chairman of The Christian Science Board of Directors, Virginia S. Harris, at conferences on "Spirituality & Healing in Medicine" in Boston and Houston. The conferences were arranged by the department of continuing education at Harvard Medical School and by the Mind/Body Institute, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Another of the main speakers at both conferences was Samuel Solivan, Ph.D., who is an associate professor of Christian Theology at Andover Newton Theological School. He led the discussions on Pentecostalism. Our Features Editor, Kim Shippey, spoke with him about his personal Christian experience and healing.
Professor Solivan began by reiterating that, in his view, "spirituality, and specifically the Holy Spirit, are not the property of any single community. They are the gift of God's graciousness to all creation. Too often," he said, "we want to be able to own, control, and domesticate that graciousness, instead of striving to understand, nurture, receive, and experience it in the community to which we belong."
