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Answers to questions our research team has received.
Did Churchill ask a group of British Christian Scientists to pray?
Find out about these wartime requests.
Did Francis Fluno write “Criticism”?
Read about the authenticity of this work. Text included.
Did Mary Baker Eddy write it? A letter to Septimus J. Hanna
Read about a document that mixes the authentic and inauthentic.
Did Mary Baker Eddy write it? “Day”
Read this background on a much-circulated manuscript.
Did Mary Baker Eddy write it? “Once every day in the morning…”
How did a letter from Eddy end up in the papers of a US Senator?
What is the background of the Bible Lesson subjects?
Here’s what we know about the 26 topics and their arrangement.
Did Mary Baker Eddy write it? “Letter to a Business Man”
Here’s what we know about this document.
The authorship of “Letter to a Reader”
Have you ever encountered this letter?
Did Mary Baker Eddy write it? “My income is Life…”
Find out about the authenticity of this text.
What is the history of Christian Healing?
Here’s background on Mary Baker Eddy’s first publication following Science and Health.
Did Joseph Armstrong heal people of smallpox?
Here is background that suggests he did.
Did Eddy use Webster’s 1828 dictionary?
The answer is somewhat nuanced.
Did Eddy regularly read a hymn at bedtime?
Here’s information that suggests she did.
How did Christian Scientists respond to the 1918–1919 Spanish flu?
Here is information from a variety of sources.
What is the origin of the Explanatory Note found in the Christian Science Quarterly?
See how this text evolved to what is currently read.
