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Medical Neglect in the Name of God – Part 1
A podcast link featuring Rita Swan, a former Christian Scientist and founder of C.H.I.L.D., arguing against legal protection for faith-healing of children.
I’m still the odd man out
A former Christian Scientist working as a medical assistant explains why she refused a workplace 30-day affirmation challenge, and how it echoes childhood.
I was the worst daughter they ever saw
Sharon describes her mother’s untreated breast cancer, the metastasis that followed, and being judged at the hospital as a daughter who let it happen.
Always think of God as your Father
A children’s Christian Science story retold with the author’s commentary on what its lessons about a father, God, and affection meant to a child.
The Catholic Thing
Former Christian Scientists share how they were taught to fear Catholics as sources of malicious animal magnetism and as enemies of Christian Science.
It was our fault that my father died because we let him out of our ‘experience.’
Sharon describes how her Christian Scientist family treated death, including her mother's claim that they let her father die of throat cancer by letting him go.
What do people mean by the term 'God' anyway?
Former Christian Scientists reflect on what the word God means to them after leaving, from atheism to a sense of energy or a loving presence.
Growing up in Christian Science
Former Christian Scientists recall childhood: hiding their religion from friends, portraits of Mary Baker Eddy at home, and being told contagion was all in the mind.
They were trained to deny their affection
Short accounts from former Christian Scientists of how death and grief were handled in Christian Science, from funerals to being told a death never happened.
The emotional pain can not be described.
A former Christian Scientist describes the pain of a mother told by a practitioner son that her own mother’s amputated legs were not restored after death.