Featured articles
Highlights from our collections and exhibits, staff blogs, and insights on the history of the Christian Science movement.
With the Program: Mary Baker Eddy and American Bible Culture
Learn about Bible publishing that embraced the common man and woman.
From the Papers: Sermon at Chickering Hall
Read about the first time Eddy preached in a noted Boston location.
From the Collections: Clues from a photo album
Explore some paths we traveled in researching images from the turn of the nineteenth century.
From the Papers: Praise for the new Journal
Read this annotated letter from a student of Mary Baker Eddy.
From the Papers: Growing demand for Science and Health
Read an 1884 letter to Eddy describing sales of her book in the Midwest.
Christian Science and African Americans: A new discovery of early healing
See what impact the early Christian Science movement made within the African American community.
From the Papers: Requests for treatment
Read an 1884 exchange between Mary Baker Eddy and a woman in search of healing.
From the Papers—Part One: Learning from Letterhead
Meet the people who wrote to Mary Baker Eddy—by taking a look at their stationery.
On the front lines: the Vest Pocket Edition of “Science and Health”
Read about a miniature edition of the Christian Science textbook, designed for soldiers.
Picturing “Uplands at Bow”
Learn the story behind this celebrated painting of Mary Baker Eddy’s birthplace.
From the Papers: “To prove the ‘Truth’ you had taught us”
Read the first letters to Mary Baker Eddy from Laura Sargent.
From the Papers: The author’s voice
See how different documents contain similar word choices.
From the Collections: A small book notes a big story
Read about early efforts to organize the Christian Science movement.
From the Papers: A letter from a healer
Read the first communication to Eddy from a devoted early worker in Christian Science.
From the Papers: Easter season
Read how Mary Baker Eddy preached on the subject in 1885.