Christian Scientists Consider the COVID-19 Vaccine

As the Occupational Safety and Health Administration issues its rules for employer-mandated COVID-19 vaccinations, discussions have heated up over who may claim an exemption to such mandates due to religious beliefs. And in these discussions, one religious group stands apart from the others. As a faith community, Christian Scientists -- who believe above all in divine healing power over human-created cures and treatments -- do not fit neatly into the anti-vaccine, vaccine-hesitant, or pro-vaccine categories. The beliefs and attitudes of Christian Science as a religion toward both disease and health put its adherents in a class of their own, even among other Christians.