christian science practitioner
Christian Science & Terminal Cancer
Geoffrey D. Roberts describes his father relying on a paid practitioner after a cancer diagnosis, getting treatment too late, and dying in June 2020.
Interview with the Author of "Cult Survivor"
An interview with Chrystal Cole, a former Christian Science practitioner, about her memoir Cult Survivor, leaving the church, and family still in it.
Chrystal's Story: The Year I Left Christian Science
Chrystal describes the year of leaving Christian Science: her father’s death, grief counseling, joining a Quaker meeting, and finding other former Christian Scientists.
Chrystal's Story: My 2nd Lump (Part 3)
Part 3: after a year of guilt, a former Christian Scientist sees a dermatologist about a lipoma, lives with the scar, and starts physical therapy.
Chrystal's Story: My Second Lump (Part 2)
Chrystal describes a decade of praying and paying practitioners over a growing lump, the guilt after having it removed by a doctor, and a short first try at Quaker meetings.
Chrystal's Story: On Recycling and Medicine
A former Christian Scientist describes ideas being rejected at two branch churches, from recycling to events, and members refusing to admit two young women who took medicine.
Chrystal's Story - Going Crazy At Branch Church
A former Christian Scientist recalls a toddler’s earache treated by a practitioner and the events she organized at her branch church, including a Bible camp.
Chrystal’s Story – Becoming a Christian Science Practitioner
Chrystal describes Class Instruction and becoming a Journal-listed Christian Science practitioner, including the unpaid work, the costs, and the church’s stance on doctors.
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.
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.