Editorials

Sometimes we may be tempted to suppose we automatically have Christian Science because we are church members or we've been studying Christian Science for a while. Yet the truth is we have Christian Science only to the extent that we've actively replaced old thought with new.

One of the great challenges—and blessings—that the original Christianity of the New Testament still presents to human thinking is in the continuing demand to move beyond mere religiosity in our worship of God. Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, the textbook of Christian Science, contains a section specifically on theology See Science and Health, pp.

Every generation has events to face—dramatic issues that leave sharp impressions. For my grandparents, it was World War I, tuberculosis, a worldwide epidemic of influenza, and the beginning of their children's move away from the farm.

A story is told about the famous astrophysicist, Freeman Dyson, when he met a marine biologist during a trip along the coast of British Columbia a number of years ago. As the two men were discussing their work, Dyson's fourteen-year-old daughter, Emily, was listening to everything.

When Christ Jesus founded his church on the rock of Christ, he immediately proclaimed its inviolate nature with the words "And the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. " Matt.

God's first creative words, as recorded in the Bible, were "Let there be light. "   Gen.

It is a conviction that permeates the writings of the woman who discovered and founded Christian Science: we live in a time of massive, significant transition for mankind. "Truth's immortal idea," Mary Baker Eddy writes, "is sweeping down the centuries, gathering beneath its wings the sick and sinning.

The birth of Jesus is one of the most improbable stories. Think of all the unlikely events that were part of it.

The first sign that something unique had taken place that first Christmas was the unusual radiance in the night sky. Shepherds who were patiently tending their flocks and keeping watch, as they must have done thousands of times before, were the first to hear the good news the angel of God was bringing to the world: "Behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.

Ethics, often dismissed as a prissy Sunday School word, is now at the center of a new national debate. Put bluntly, has the mindless materialism of the '80s left in its wake a values vacuum? Time, May 25, 1987 In recent months the United States has once again been struggling with its national conscience.