christian science practitioner
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 am grateful for her kindness and pragmatism.
An adult child describes a mother's daily calls to a Christian Science practitioner who acts as her therapist and, the writer believes, urged her to stay on medication.
If I would only know the Truth about my sight, I would not need glasses
A former Christian Scientist describes ten years of untreated nearsightedness, a practitioner who told her to know the Truth, and how it limited her as a child.
In fact, they are radiant with health and full of energy on the inside
An anonymous former Christian Scientist recalls teenage questions about heaven passed to a practitioner, and wonders why Mary Baker Eddy said so little about the afterlife.
I just believed what they told me. Because I was a kid!
A former Christian Scientist recalls their mother’s death from an untreated lung illness and a practitioner who, when they were thirteen, blamed them for the family’s poverty.