I participate in ecumenical contacts with the various churches in our community as part of my work as Christian Science Committee on Publication in Italy where I live. These contacts can lead to opportunities to help lift the yoke of historical religious injustice from humanity and thereby contribute to the healing of whatever would obscure Truth, which is universal and available to all. This activity also represents the leaven of Spirit at work to uplift thought in the areas of "Science, Theology, and Medicine." See Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 118.
During my first year of service, I attended a community lecture entitled "Protestants and Jews: a knotty dialogue." It began well enough, but the question-and-answer period became worse than knotty. It seemed everyone was talking at once and no one was listening to anyone. I decided to leave.
I was stopped from doing that, however, by this idea: I was there, as a Committee on Publication for the Christian Science Church, to heal. This healing demanded that I ". . . correct in a Christian manner. . ." Mary Baker Eddy, Manual of The Mother Church, Art. XXXIII, Sect. 2. in my own thought any imposition a history of religious conflict would claim to make on people's ability to understand and act in accord with God's eternal, harmonious government of man. I sat back and listened; my consciousness was filled with a clear message from God, in Malachi's words in the Bible, "Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us?" Mal. 2:10. I accepted this as the only story about what was going on and identified everyone there with it.
