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Straighten out your thinking!
Sharon recalls severe untreated burns on a foot at age nine, a painful infection, and a mother who said only to straighten out their thinking.
God was expected to provide
A former Christian Scientist raised in the UK describes a mother who hoped the writer would become a practitioner, and the confusion that followed.
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 idea that you’re deceived by illusions is itself an illusion.”
Michael describes growing up with parents who believed everyone is perfect, a Sunday School answer that started three months of questions, and leaving Christian Science.
No. I want God to do it.
A former Christian Scientist describes a childhood hand injury remembered as a healing, doubts that memory now, and argues that false memories sustain belief in Christian Science.
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.
We understand this but others do not, aren't we clever...
A former Christian Scientist looks at Science and Health again, finds it unreadable and repetitive, and notes it offers little advice for when a healing does not come.
Five Questions: S's Answers
A former Christian Scientist, raised in the church from infancy, answers the Five Questions about staying, leaving, and a broken leg that made them afraid to rely on prayer.
Five Questions: P's Answers
P, born into Christian Science, answers five questions about leaving at sixteen after asking a Sunday School teacher how a perfect person can be deceived by illusions.
Five Questions: N's Answers
N, raised in Christian Science, answers five questions about staying out of fear, leaving a religion that made people feel guilty for seeking help, and why people join.