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How Did Mary Baker Eddy Get to Be a Millionaire?
An accountant’s look at how Mary Baker Eddy built her fortune through teaching, textbook royalties, souvenirs, and investments, using her biographers’ figures.
My thoughts on Father's Day...
A former Christian Scientist reflects on Father’s Day, parents who died after years without treatment, including untreated heart failure, and the anger that remains.
Why would anyone join? My Father's Story
Why people join Christian Science, and how the writer’s father came to it in the 1960s after his doctor and priest could not help, through Science and Health.
Fleshly ties are temporal: Happy Father's Day
A Father’s Day collection of first-hand stories from people who grew up with Christian Scientist fathers, with links to three of them.
Chrystal's Story - It's time we teach you how to pray
A former Christian Scientist recalls being taught to pray as a child by listing faults to deny each day, kneeling in front of the parents who dictated them.
Ex-Christian Scientist Book Survey
Results of a survey of 71 former Christian Scientists on what they read: Science and Health, the Bible, church literature, critical books, memoirs, and websites for former members.
Key Thinkers that Pre-dated MBE: Swedenborg, Berkeley, & Hegel.
A look at Swedenborg, Berkeley, and Hegel, and claims that their ideas or writings influenced Mary Baker Eddy’s Science and Health.
Quimby & Wiggin - no one wants to share the fame
How Phineas Quimby and editor James Henry Wiggin influenced Mary Baker Eddy and Science and Health, drawing on her biographers, with links for further reading.
The Myth of Safe Spaces
A former Christian Scientist describes a Unitarian Universalist workshop on owning your religious past, and why talking about Christian Science there felt unsafe.
Where did "Science & Health" come from?
An overview of the earlier healers, philosophers, and ideas behind Mary Baker Eddy’s Science and Health, especially her years studying with Phineas Parkhurst Quimby.