Author
Elizabeth
Elizabeth's Story: Everything is always in its right place
Elizabeth describes a 1993 car accident at nineteen, followed by refusing treatment from paramedics and going home to family and a Christian Science practitioner.
Isolating ourselves with stagnant ideas because they feel comfortable...
Elizabeth compares Christian Science’s system of denial to a tank, and describes the feelings that surface on leaving it and how the ex-Christian Scientist community responds.
1989 Measles at Principia Upper School: Elizabeth's Story
A former Principia Upper School student recalls the 1989 measles outbreak: quarantined dorm wings, no medical care, and a fever she believes reached 103 to 106 degrees.
Our concept of god is a flawed and limited...
A former Christian Scientist describes a view of God as one unified mathematical expression, and why Christian Science seems to work until it meets the facts of life.
The mortals at school would think that they were seeing an injury.
Elizabeth recalls a serious mouth injury at age five that was treated with prayer, not stitches, and why it no longer seems like a Christian Science healing.
Born Perfect
A former Christian Scientist describes waiting and praying from age twelve to twenty-five for puberty and a first period, until a doctor found she was born without ovaries.
My wife will nudge me, "hmm, are you doing your prayerful work?”
Elizabeth describes how Christian Science habits of ignoring symptoms linger after leaving, including over a broken arm, and how a wife’s nudges help.
Why I'm doing this
Elizabeth, the site’s content editor, recounts a grandfather’s death and another’s disabling stroke, both under Christian Science, and hopes to help someone now.