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Thanksgiving 2020
Former Christian Scientists give thanks for leaving, for medical care and therapy, and for science during the pandemic, in place of the church’s Thanksgiving Day testimony service.
Get Wise Webinar: Emotions!
A recorded webinar where a licensed counselor explains how to handle emotions after Christian Science, with trauma-informed methods and DBT skills.
Christian Science is a Cult
A review of Linda Kramer's Perfect Peril, which measures Christian Science against Robert Jay Lifton's eight criteria for thought reform, with notes on each criterion.
Coverups, Conspiracies & "Colonel" Glover
An examination of Mary Baker Eddy’s claim that her first husband, George Glover, died of yellow fever in Wilmington in 1844, and what the records suggest.
Get Wise Webinar: Why is Christian Science STILL influencing my life?
A recorded webinar with cult recovery experts Bob and Judy Pardon on why the effects of Christian Science last after leaving, with the Fellowship of Former Christian Scientists.
Mary Baker Eddy on Race and Slavery
A former Christian Science practitioner examines the historical evidence that Mary Baker Eddy opposed abolition and held racial views, despite her later claims.
Thanksgiving 2019
Thanksgiving testimonies from former Christian Scientists grateful for modern medicine, therapy, new communities, and no longer sitting through church.
10 Things You Probably Never Knew About MBE
An anonymous contributor shares ten lesser-known facts about Mary Baker Eddy, drawn from Willa Cather and Georgine Milmine’s biography of her.
I dreamed in a red haze all night.
A man describes testicular torsion at age 13 when his mother read Science and Health instead of getting medical help, the lasting injury, and a later hospital visit.
I was told that I had the Best Life
Content warning: child sexual abuse. A woman raised on the Principia campuses describes untreated illness, her sister's polio, abuse by her father, and a long recovery.