This audio lecture was a conversation between Heloísa Gelber Rivas, Co-Manager of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship, and Alessandra Colombini, a practitioner and teacher of Christian Science who lives in São Paulo, Brazil. Alessandra has also been a Christian Science lecturer.
Alessandra, tell us a little bit about your journey as you began to read the Bible from childhood and how that led you to find Christian Science, and tell us about your spiritual search and how that came to a beautiful development of understanding.
Well, it started as a child when I learned how to read. I loved to read, and I was given a book with stories from the Bible, so I fell in love with the Bible as a small child. I was in a religious school, and I had a very strict religious upbringing in my primary school, but not much Bible teaching. Then in my teens, I could study the Bible more within a Protestant denomination. There I found people who spoke about the Bible, who taught me more from the Bible, and I was very grateful for that. Despite this religious upbringing, though, I didn’t feel I really understood the Bible.
