When:
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
1:00-1:15 PM

Women’s History Month—-Celebrating Mary Baker Eddy

Sponsored by the Christian Science Informal Group, Germantown, Maryland

Mary Baker Eddy overcame great struggles in her life—ill health, poverty, injustice— to make an indelible mark on religion, health, and journalism.About this Event

Living in an era when women had few rights and opportunities, Mary Baker Eddy overcame years of ill health, poverty, and great personal struggle to make an indelible mark on society, religion, spiritual-based healing, and journalism. Here are just a few of her achievements.

• Founded, in her 87th year, an international newspaper respected around the world for its editorial integrity and news insight, winner of 7 Pulitzer prizes—The Christian Science Monitor.

• Authored a groundbreaking book on spirituality, health, and healing, currently published in 16 languages and Braille, honored by the Women’s National Book Association as one of 75 books by women “whose words have changed the world”—Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures

.• Became the first American woman to found a lasting, American-based religious denomination, the Church of Christ, Scientist, with churches and reading rooms in over 70 countries.

• Founded and was president of a teaching college.

In 1995, Mary Baker Eddy was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York, for “her indelible mark on society, religion, and journalism.”

Join us for a short video (15 minutes) to learn more about the life, ideas, and achievements of Mary Baker Eddy.

This Zoom event is sponsored by the Christian Science Informal Group, Germantown, Maryland.  

To see this short video presentation on Zoom, log in to http://www.tinyurl.com/whmmbe a few minutes before 1:00 p.m. on March 18. 

WHAT? Moving past fear – to healing,” a talk by practitioner of Christian Science healing and international speaker, Lisa Troseth. The talk will focus on universal healing precepts found in the Holy Bible, especially in Christ Jesus’ life and teachings, showing how they are available for anyone to understand and experience through the lens of Christian Science. The talk is free, open to the community, and sponsored by Church name: i.e. “First Church of Christ, Scientist, in” town name.

WHY? Fear can be overcome and even healed in our lives by discovering the strong connection and relationship we have to something bigger than ourselves—God,” says Troseth. “By learning to lean and rely on this greater, higher good, we can feel moved to love beyond ourselves—and this frees us from fear and so much more.”

Sharing examples of healing from her own life and professional practice of Christian Science, Troseth will explain why Christian Science is both Christian and scientific, meaning that people can prove its effectiveness for themselves, as fully described in the book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, written by the founder of the Christian Science movement, Mary Baker Eddy.

Troseth will also touch on the life of Mary Baker Eddy, and how she came to understand, confirm, and teach what she felt was original Christian healing. Eddy herself said she was especially inspired by Jesus’ demand, “He that believes on me, the works that I do will he do also; and greater works than these will he do, because I go unto my Father” (found in the Gospel of John 14:12 in the Bible). 

For over 150 years, people around the world have worked to follow Christ Jesus in this practice of Christianity and continue to do so today, with healings of physical ills and personal difficulties.

With daily changes in the world, people are looking for reliable solutions, by turning away from shifting material systems to spiritual answers. Giulia Nesi Tetreau, CSB, explores this and how we can apply the spiritual lessons in Christian Science to our daily lives, to find resolution, healing, and progress. 

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How does prayer heal?

Why does spiritual healing matter in today’s high-tech society?

Who is Mary Baker Eddy and how are her ideas relevant today?

Public talks by members of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship explore these questions and explain Christian Science, to all kinds of audiences. Everyone is welcome.

Centered on the Bible and the writings of Mary Baker Eddy, these talks describe how relevant the spiritual laws behind Christ Jesus’ healing works are to our lives. They explore the life-transforming ideas found in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. The speakers also show the practicality of these teachings by sharing healings of individual, community, and global problems happening today.

These in-person and online talks are given by a diverse group of Christian Science lecturers that serves as a speakers’ bureau for The First Church of Christ, Scientist. From a variety of countries, backgrounds, ethnic and language groups, all are experienced at healing others through the practice of Christian Science.