Most deeply religious people have at some time or other grappled with the question of evil in the world. If God is good, and doesn't inflict evil on creation, then where does evil come from? While the Journal would not want to trivialize the importance of this question—particularly in an issue that contains an interview with Elie Wiesel, who has dedicated his life to the memory of those who did not survive the Jewish Holocaust—the staff felt a discussion with an experienced spiritual healer would help to comfort those of our readers who may be facing personal challenges they know in their hearts they don't deserve. Journalist interviews Corinne J. Teeter, a longtime practitioner and teacher of Christian Science.
How do you hold onto your faith in a good God, a healing God, when there's so much evil in the world?
Well, first off, I begin by acknowledging that God hasn't stopped being God. Truth is one of the names for God that the Bible gives, and I perceive Truth through my spiritual senses, which are beyond what I can touch with my hands, or see with my eyes.
