childhood memories
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.
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: 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.
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.
Childhood fascination with medicine & desire to fit in
Former Christian Scientists share childhood memories of vitamins, aspirin, and prescription bottles: curiosity about medicine they were never allowed, and the wish to fit in.
Someone introduced Mother to a CSP
Part 1 of a former Christian Scientist’s story: a mother devoted to practitioners and her teacher, a childhood without medical care, and how it still affects the writer.
I was the beneficiary of dumb luck.
A former Christian Scientist recalls childhood coughs and earaches treated only with prayer, and a retired trauma counselor’s verdict that this was neglect.