Category: Mary Baker Eddy

Do you believe in matter?

May 31, 2011 | 13 comments

I was recently reading through some notes from the Mary Baker Eddy Library that I had accumulated a few years ago. I was a bit startled, yet delighted, when I read a quote from Mrs. Eddy to the effect of,

When in the tomb

May 23, 2011 | 6 comments

Have you ever felt imprisoned in a tomb? I’m not thinking of a cave in rock, but of a mental place, perhaps one of hopelessness, despair, poverty, addiction, debt, conflict, disease, sin and any other type of mortal darkness and

Lecture highlight

January 17, 2011 | 14 comments

Last Friday night, I lectured to a packed house at the First Church of Christ, Scientist, Pasadena, CA. It was part of the Southern California Church Alive Summit, and what an evening it was. Ginny Luedeman, another Christian Science lecturer,

Science and Health is easy to understand

January 7, 2010 | 9 comments

Occasionally, I’ve heard someone tell me that the book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, is difficult to understand. I’ve puzzled over the years how to respond to this type of observation because when

The future of Christian Science

June 18, 2009 | 5 comments

A while back, while pondering the declining membership I’ve seen in many branch churches of the Christian Science movement, the question beckoned for attention in my mind, “What if the world no longer had Christian Science? Would it matter?” To