Nov 28, 2015
THE UNSEEN SHORE Memories of a Christian Science Childhood. By Thomas Simmons. 173 pp. Boston: Beacon Press. $17.95.
All that many of us know about Christian Science is that it is a religion of people who do not believe in going to the doctor. Apart from this peculiarity, Christian Scientists seem like ordinary middle-class folks. In cities and towns across the nation, their columned temples suggest a stolid and conventional faith.
This is actually quite a good review of a memoir about Christian Science. I haven’t read it, but it’s rare to find a piece about the religion that isn’t entirely inaccurate or insensitive.