A COMMERCIAL I'VE SEEN A FEW TIMES ON TV RECENTLY SHOWS a series of tiny vignettes: A pedestrian steps off the curb, unwittingly in danger, and the stranger next to him pulls him to safety. Several more incidents follow where strangers help other strangers in small and sometimes tender ways. What's going on? Well, a lot of people would say that humans just naturally express kindness, that most of us automatically lend a hand when we can. And I agree. But why should we help others when we don't have to? Maybe some kind of genetic engineering has wired kindness into our makeup? That's one way of seeing it. Another way, the way Christian Scientists explain it, comes from a deep spiritual perspective.
Mary Baker Eddy identified the goodness and caring in everyday life as evidence of the Christ, the divine influence that Jesus so effortlessly exemplified in his life. This Christ presence is the "wiring," the substance and identity of each of us—everyone's spiritual purity, derived from divine Spirit.
This month's feature "The Christ" begins with Channing Walker's article, "The Christ in You," in which he takes a deep dive into exploring how the Christ works in practical, healing ways. Then our own Journal staff editor Dorothy Estes looks at another facet of the "divine idea"—the universality of the Christ—in her article "The Light of the World."
