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Five Questions: M's Answers
An anonymous former Christian Scientist answers five common questions: how they got in, why they stayed, why they left at 45, why people join, and whether they believed.
Five Questions: L's Answers
A fourth-generation former Christian Scientist answers five common questions: how she got in, why she stayed, what made her leave, why people join, and whether she believed.
Five Questions: H's Answers
H, raised in Christian Science by parents who converted as adults, answers five questions about why they stayed, why they left, and whether they really believed.
Five Questions: C's Answers
A former Christian Scientist, raised in the church and a Principia College graduate, answers the Five Questions about staying until about age 24 and leaving.
Five Questions: A's Answers
One former Christian Scientist answers the five questions most often asked of people who leave: how they joined, why they stayed, why they left, and whether they believed.
Five Questions
The five questions people ask when someone leaves Christian Science, with a link to the series where former members answer them and how to contribute.
Christian Science really screwed up my connection to ME
A former Christian Scientist describes 22 years in the religion, a slow exit after Principia College, a father's death, a mother's devotion, and picking up the pieces.
Guilt, because we are not good enough to get that healing.
Part 3 of a former Christian Scientist’s story: growing up with Mary Baker Eddy’s picture on the wall, guilt over failed healings, lost empathy for illness, and a search for faith.
I knew that we had no ability to heal our physical or financial problems using Christian Science
An anonymous former Christian Scientist describes caring, as a teenager, for a grandmother with Alzheimer’s disease using Christian Science rather than medical care.
My eyesight was on the line!
A former Principia College student describes being interrogated by a Christian Science nurse, house mom, and dean after a secret ER visit for an eye infection.