While reading The Christian Science Monitor online, I was invited to take a survey on the civilian use of drones. After a few questions about my views, the survey finished by asking me to rate myself on a scale from “very liberal” to “very conservative.” The last option on the list made me pause—“nonpolitical.”
The same month Mary Baker Eddy launched the Monitor, a Boston newspaper asked what her politics were. She replied, “I have none, in reality, other than to help support a righteous government; to love God supremely, and my neighbor as myself” (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 276).
That’s a definition of nonpolitical I’d like to claim! It’s hard to think of a better way to contribute to peace on earth, goodwill to men (see Luke 2:14). And I’m very grateful that reading the Monitor regularly is helping me (and I suspect many others) grow toward a more spiritual zeal—a desire to read the news to understand the underlying moral issues of a situation and pray unselfishly for healing.
