Selected articles from The Christian Science Journal
Mary Baker Eddy—businesswoman on the go
Yvonne von Fettweis | from The Christian Science Journal
Writer, editor, publisher, teacher, church organizer, Christian healer—Mrs. Eddy achieved what she did only through integrity and the ability to focus, expedite, and lead, all shaped by listening to God’s good and constructive guidance. read
‘How Mrs. Eddy is being discovered’
from The Christian Science Journal
Mary Baker Eddy’s life and ideas have touched people in any number of ways. Here are comments from some people involved with medicine, religion, and the media. read
Mary Baker Eddy’s Puritan heritage—part one
Robert Townsend Warneck | from The Christian Science Journal
The Puritan influence in Mary Baker Eddy's early religious training explains much about how she thought and lived, but to understand it we have to leave stereotypes behind. read
Mary Baker Eddy’s Puritan heritage—part two
Robert Townsend Warneck | from The Christian Science Journal
The Puritan influence in Mary Baker Eddy's early religious training played a prominent role in her thought and life, and it also had a role in the prominence she gave to healing the sick in Christian Science. read
A woman for the 21st century
Gillian Gill | from The Christian Science Journal
Mary Baker Eddy was born in the early 1800s, but one of her biographers says that “Mrs. Eddy isn’t just historically important. Her life offers us some blueprints for life in the 21st century.” read
Historians comment on Mary Baker Eddy
from The Christian Science Journal
Is Mary Baker Eddy still relevant in the 21st century? Three academic visitors to The Mary Baker Eddy Library join biographer Gillian Gill in answering that question. read
Mary Baker Eddy—proving the freedom of womanhood
Tony Lobl | from The Christian Science Journal
Mary Baker Eddy had to overcome the obstacles she faced as a woman in what was, outwardly at least, a man’s world. In these and other ways Mrs. Eddy proved that womanhood could be rightly viewed and experienced as including complete freedom. She also encouraged other women to prove the same thing for themselves. read
Christian Science healing practices
from The Christian Science Journal
A practitioner and teacher of Christian Science, invited to give a brief insight into the healing practice of Christian Science at a conference, explains that it was discovered about 130 years ago in New England by Mary Baker Eddy and that it is based on the Bible and particularly on Jesus’ healing and teachings. read
‘Two cardinal points’
Colleen Douglass | from The Christian Science Journal
Mary Baker Eddy characterized two elements as essential to the practice of Christian Science. They never run dry, and we can find more ways to apply them day by day. read
When you need help fast
Elise L. Moore | from The Christian Science Journal
It’s natural to desire health. It’s also natural to expect quick and permanent healing that assures you of your wholeness and wellness—right here and now. And that healing is possible spiritually. read
