Articles & Testimonies
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 take...
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 accepting of...
My Glorious Subjective Universe
A talk by John H. Hargreaves
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,...
Discovering What Our Discoverer’s Words Were Meant to Mean
By definition, a living language continually changes its words, usage and meaning. As you will see, Mary Baker Eddy was an inspired wordsmith, prayerfully and patiently choosing her words with meticulous care and deliberation and reflection. Today, unfortunately, so...
“Shared Death Experiences”
Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures” by Mary Baker Eddy, page 75-76: “There is one possible moment, when those living on the earth and those called dead, can commune together, and that is the moment previous to the transition - the moment when the link...
“Confrontation at the 1969 Annual Meeting”
DEED OF GIFT AND COPYRIGHT LICENSE AGREEMENTTom Taffel<< Address on file >>The First Church of Christ, ScientistOctober 17, 2012 (Date Property Received)December 20, 2012 (Signed Under Seal) Prologue: One month earlier, on May 4, 1969, James...
How a gay soccer player was hired as first out teacher at a Christian Science school
Ross Furbush was able to be his authentic self with the help of his mentor, whose acceptance of LGBTQ people mirrored that of his church. Read the full article on Outsports.com:...
Sayings by Peter J. Henniker-Heaton
(Oxford-educated Henniker-Heaton was an extraordinary, down-to-earth Christian Scientist of the old sort, humbly full of many insights and good humor. His healing of long-term, "incurable" paralysis during the WWII bombing of London is a classic one.) NOTE: On at...
