When I am asked, “So, what do you do?” my response frequently brings a raised eyebrow. “I’m a Christian Science nurse,” I say. “A what?” the person often responds.
Growing up, I knew what a Christian Science practitioner was, but I had never met a Christian Science nurse. I was puzzled about what they did and why, and, frankly, distrusted the whole idea. After all, wasn’t Christian Science about healing problems, not nursing them along?
In my late teens, I decided to investigate this mystery further. I was aware that Mary Baker Eddy, who founded Christian Science, wrote in the Manual of The Mother Church a By-Law establishing the Christian Science nurse (Article 8, Section 31, p. 49). And I made some other interesting discoveries.
