Word Power – Expanding Our Spiritual Vocabulary

Mary Baker Eddy was a wordsmith, and chose her words skillfully and caringly.  No detail was too small; changing an “f” to a “t” — the word “fear” became “tear.” (“Tear or triumph harms” – “Feed My Sheep”). Words change meaning, and semantics can certainly...

The tendencies of Mary Baker Eddy

The “tendencies” of Mary Baker Eddy, her husband Asa Gilbert, “Githy,” Eddy, and her son, Dr. Ebenezer J. Foster-Eddy, (“Little Nellie” and “the daughter of the regiment”) – Researched by Tom Taffel No religion on earth should be less homophonic, and more...

A Story Untold

by Keith McNeil  –  Hawthorne Publishing, “Winds of Change”(Reprinted with permission) How Biographical Treatments of Quimby and Eddy Have Influenced the Debate In Eddy’s day, the ratio of references of “emerge gently” compared to “radical reliance” in the above...

Honesty and Temporary Means

Christian Scientists demonstrate absolute Christian Science as far as possible. Beyond this we are obliged to choose the lesser of two evils.—Alfred Farlow, CSD, first Committee on Publication of The First Church of Christ, Scientist. (appeared in Kansas City,...