healthcare – The Ex-Christian Scientist

Measles

Measles are back in the news, so we have compiled relevant posts. The CDC page, https://www.cdc.gov/measles/data-research/index.html, and Texas Department of Health & Human Services where the most recent outbreak is…

The ExCS March 23, 2025

Christian Science FAQ Historical Context

Christian Science & Lobbying

Christian Scientists have been lobbying the government for well over 100 years to make their special brand of faith-healing legal and covered by health insurance. The Pew Research Center notes…

The ExCS January 12, 2025

Christian Science Health Resources Resources

How to tell your medical provider about your CS background

How to tell your medical provider about your CS background is an ever-green topic that comes up for the ex-Christian Science community, so we reached out to our Facebook group…

The ExCS February 18, 2024

Health Resources

Ask a Nurse: Getting Vaccinated for Polio as an Adult

Ask a NurseThe ExCS site has teamed with a registered nurse and paramedic with a background in healthcare education and public health. Married to a former-CS, the Nurse would like…

The ExCS October 9, 2022

Health Resources

How to get Vaccinated

This post has been submitted by an ExCS group contributor. If you have questions about vaccinations, please ask your Doctor or other healthcare professional. For more posts about Healthcare see…

The ExCS February 13, 2019

Believing & Practicing

Chrystal’s Story: My Second Lump (Part 2)

This is part of an on-going series, for all posts in this series see the tag Chrystal’s Story. A note from Chrystal: I was born a fourth-generation Christian Scientist, and finally…

Chrystal September 17, 2017

Christian Science

Why can’t Nana keep up with us?

By a contributor to The Ex-Christian Scientist. "Why can't Nana keep up with us?" my child asked. The question hung in the air. "She's older," I replied. "She's not as young…

Admin J September 18, 2016

Christian Science

Are Christian Scientists free to choose medical care or not?

By Bruce, an Ex-Christian Scientist group writer. A number of child death cases in the 1980s and 90s involving Christian Scientists, exposed The Mother Church, Christian Science practitioners, and Christian…

Admin J March 6, 2016

Christian Science

I knew that we had no ability to heal our physical or financial problems using Christian Science

By an anonymous Ex-Christian Scientist Group contributor. I grew up with my ailing radically reliant Christian Scientist mother and my grandmother—whose house it was—who didn't believe a word of Christian…

The ExCS July 26, 2015