2023-04-30

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Knowing Better

You've seen their influence everywhere, you just didn't know it. Christian Science has affected everything in the United States from criminal law to healthcare. How did this Temperance religion gain so much influence?

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Sources

► Books

God's Perfect Child: Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church

Caroline Fraser (1999)

https://amzn.to/3RzkUFM

Christian Science

Mark Twain (1907)

https://amzn.to/40gGy5m

From Science & Religion to God: A Narrative of Mary Baker Eddy's "Science and Health"

Cheryl Petersen (2021)

https://amzn.to/3DqhcrT

Mary Baker Eddy (Radcliffe Biography Series)

Gillian Gill (1999)

https://amzn.to/3IAkuMd

Retrospection and Introspection

Mary Baker Eddy (1891)

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Retrospection_and_Introspection/J18AAAAAMAAJ?gbpv=1

► Documentaries/Movies/Videos

Mary Baker Eddy: A Heart in Protest (1988)

https://www.christianscience.com/additional-resources/committee-on-publication/circle-of-faith/mary-baker-eddy-a-heart-in-protest

Larry King Interview with Virginia Harris (September 30 1999)

https://youtu.be/pvjLOxFSQR8

Gillian Gill on Mary Baker Eddy, BookTV, CSPAN2 (January 26 1999)

https://www.c-span.org/video/?119502-1/mary-baker-eddy

Christian Science Lectures -

The healing perspective of Christian Science - Evan Mehlenbacher, Speaker - https://youtu.be/4vUtGJKVHJE

Curing the incurable - Elise Moore, Speaker - https://youtu.be/0VSK1aQ0Xm4

Discover your relationship with God: 3 simple questions - Stormy Becker Falso, Speaker - https://youtu.be/cH36KFJzYkI

Infinite possibilities for healing - Chet Manchester, Speaker - https://youtu.be/TP1EH_4CtZI

Spiritual discovery: How we can better the world - Tom McElroy, Speaker - https://youtu.be/RJMVMDSE9t0

Moving past fear to healing - Lisa Troseth, Speaker - https://youtu.be/69RHdEe0J_g

Healing Testimonies -

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpqGUCp9_XsXgzQlL6csNLXz5FaHXLJM4

Children's Videos -

https://sentinel.christianscience.com/just-for-kids

https://www.christianscience.com/youth/children

https://www.christianscience4neworleans.com/videos

► Audio

Sunday Service of the Mother Church

https://www.christianscience.com/publications-and-activities/online-services-and-events/online-sunday-church-service

Wednesday Testimony Meetings of the Mother Church

https://www.christianscience.com/publications-and-activities/online-services-and-events/online-wednesday-testimony-meeting

► Websites and Other Reading

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pjSqbFl0XsHmA3HXGT3ZC3bcY0qXepmNEJko5JfBOnA/edit?usp=sharing

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Chapters

0:00 Cold Open

1:56 Introduction

4:58 Challenge Discussion

8:20 Mary's Early Years

14:08 The Fall in Lynn

18:57 Mary's Hypochondria

22:02 Quimby and Mesmerism

27:05 Aftermath of the Fall

32:04 Interrogating Sources

42:50 Vlog

46:23 Science and Health

55:07 Christ and Medicine

1:01:33 Men and Lawsuits

1:06:59 Founding the Church

1:15:24 The Mother Church

1:21:58 Healing Testimonies

1:30:33 Exceptions

1:34:45 Attacks and Criticisms

1:41:49 Mary's Final Years

1:47:05 Celebrities

1:49:52 Changing the Law

1:59:46 The Child Cases

2:11:02 Decline of Christian Science

2:21:23 Conclusion

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