Spotlight on Spirituality & Health

A Christian Scientists’ spiritual health care The article “Christian Scientists lobby to add prayer to health bill” [News, Nov. 26] seems to conclude with the impression that Christian Science healing is ineffective. Those who have never witnessed or experienced physical healing through the study of Christian Science may be persuaded to place it in the [...]

Christian Scientists weigh in, lobby for spiritual care As one of the Christian Scientists mentioned by the title, “Christian Scientists lobby to add prayer to health bill,” [News, Nov. 26], I’d like to add my perspective. I have attended a number of local healthcare reform forums over the past two years.  Patient choice has always [...]

The Daily News, Letter to the Editor: Christian Science isn’t faith healing Your November 22nd front-page article, “Child deaths test faith healing exemption” was prompted by a tragedy that had nothing to do with Christian Science.  Yet, somehow, Christian Science seemed to be the focus of much of the article. Let’s be clear, Christian Science is not faith healing.  Neither [...]

Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Letter to the Editor:        Christian Scientist would not impose will on another        “The ending paragraph of Mr. Thomasson’s column on the refusal of certain pharmacists to fill prescriptions for birth control pills on religious grounds, asks “Would a Christian Scientist, who doesn’t believe in doctors, refuse to put a tourniquet on the leg [...]

Seattle Magazine, July Issue The Heal Deal “My compliments to Kathryn Robinson on her well-researched, well-written article “Cross Purposes” (May 2007).  The article sheds an interesting light on many current changes and challenges facing urban churches in Seattle, including Christian Science churches. However, Christian Scientists are not “anti-doctor.”  While Christian Scientists are free to choose [...]

Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Letter to the Editor: Medical science doesn’t always provide cure, either “In response to Jeff E. Jared’s April 9 letter regarding science and religion, I feel impelled to quote Albert Einstein, who said, ‘Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.’ Jared cites a recent Harvard study that ‘found that strangers [...]

The King County Journal – Letter to the Editor: Christian Science not a cult “On March 29, a local radio show broadcast a program that labeled Mormonism, Christian Science and Jehovah’s Witnesses as cults.  The speaker went on to note that listeners should be alert that these groups are “dispensing poison.”  As a Christian Scientist, [...]

Tacoma News Tribune, Letter to the Editor: Science can’t document unseen power of prayer Re: “Praying from afar won’t help sick, huge study finds” (TNT, 3-31). It’s quite possible that any attempt to scientifically quantify prayer-including the current one that shows no benefit – is flawed.  Controlled studies can be useful in some disciplines, but [...]