The following appeared as an editorial commentary in the December 7, 1992, Sentinel.
Mention the name Judas and people all around the world are likely to think of one word: betrayal. What an awful legacy for an individual to have left—to be remembered for nearly two thousand years by hundreds of millions of people as a betrayer! The name Judas seems universally to call forth condemnation.
But there’s another side to the story, and it’s one that shouldn’t be lost sight of. This side calls for our compassion. Relatively few people caught enough of a glimpse of Jesus’ mission while he was here to commit themselves to close discipleship. Yet Judas was one of those few. He did make a beginning effort. But the most significant aspect of this other side of the story has to do with what happened after the betrayal. My feeling of compassion for Judas took quite a leap forward one day as I pondered Matthew’s account of the dramatic change that began to come over Judas when he saw what was happening to Jesus. Judas, according to the Gospel of Matthew, “repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood” (27:3, 4). (more…)
Recently the members of The Christian Science Board of Directors—Tom Black, Walter Jones, Nate Talbot, Mary Trammell, and Vic Westberg—spoke with Sentinel Radio. They shared their individual insights into the healing truth that Mary Baker Eddy discovered. Here is a transcription of what they said, first broadcast June 3 on Sentinel Radio.
Mary Trammell: What is healing? Well, really, it’s the restoring of health to the body, heart, the mind. Or maybe, on a broader basis, the body of one’s finances, one’s economy, one’s community, one’s whole world. And healing is just absolutely central to the theology of Christian Science. We have to have it. Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered and founded Christian Science, wrote this in her book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures: “The theology of Christian Science includes healing the sick” (p. 145). And to me, healing is important because it’s the tangible evidence that God loves us, that God is with us, and that He cares about us.
Warren Bolon interviews Laurance Doyle, and Nathan Talbot
Reprinted from the Jan 9, 2006, issue of the CS Sentinel.
Is evolution a more valid theory than intelligent design? Does either argument get to the fundamental truth of reality? Christian Science practitioner and teacher Nathan Talbot and astrophysicist Laurance Doyle share their thoughts…
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