This program explored ways that Mary Baker Eddy’s views and practices relate to the unfolding story of how culture, commerce, religion, and tradition intersect during the holiday season.
Led by keynote speaker, Jon Roberts, Tomorrow Foundation Professor of American Intellectual History at Boston University, panelists examined the scientific, theological, medical, and philosophical revolutions of the 19th century.
From origins as a local newspaper to its development into a global thought leader — a look at the history and horizons of a unique influence in journalism.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and former editor of The Christian Science Monitor, John Hughes, discusses and reads from his memoir of a career on the front lines of 20th-century history. The book delves into Hughes’ reporting during the administrations of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton.
Sherry Darling is Project Manager and Lead Researcher for The Mary Baker Eddy Library’s Pilot Papers Project. She joined Senior Researcher Mike Davis to discuss this period in Eddy’s life. Their conversation opened up what Mary Baker Eddy’s sermons—newly available through mbepapers.org—illustrate about her early efforts at sharing Christian Science with a wider audience.
