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Seekers and Scholars

The Mary Baker Eddy Library

Discover how seekers and scholars from a variety of disciplines have engaged with Mary Baker Eddy's life, ideas, and accomplishments.

  • 32 minutes 3 seconds
    90. Cherishing her Congregational roots—Mary Baker Eddy and the Boutons
    Find out why Eddy described the teachings and work of a prominent New Hampshire minister as the “vestibule of Christian Science.”
    1 May 2024, 4:01 am
  • 32 minutes 13 seconds
    89. Mary Baker Eddy’s argument with animal magnetism and “vitalism”
    Hear about a nineteenth-century American culture fascinated with the vitalizing effects of psychic practices, and learn why Eddy saw them as delusional and dangerous.
    1 April 2024, 2:06 pm
  • 33 minutes 50 seconds
    88. Christian Science meets African women theologians
    Learn how and why the untold stories of two pioneering Black African women Christian Scientists are resonating with contemporary women scholars and activists.
    1 March 2024, 5:01 am
  • 33 minutes 17 seconds
    87. Frances Willard, Mary Baker Eddy, and Christian social reform
    In 1932, the president of the temperance movement and the founder of Christian Science were voted two of America’s most important women leaders. Find out how they connected, and why.
    1 February 2024, 5:01 am
  • 31 minutes 30 seconds
    86. The Christian Science Publishing House—a building for the world
    Hear how this “living historical artifact” has been artfully fulfilling its purpose since 1932.
    1 January 2024, 5:01 am
  • 33 minutes 7 seconds
    85. The Piskos—to Vienna with love from The Christian Science Monitor
    Hear the story of an exiled couple from Nazi-controlled Europe, who went on to become celebrated writers at the international newspaper.
    1 December 2023, 5:01 am
  • 32 minutes 55 seconds
    84. “Christian Scientists in Zion” at the Mormon History Association
    Hear about the influence Christian Science had among the Mormon elite in late nineteenth-century Salt Lake City.
    1 November 2023, 4:01 am
  • 27 minutes 17 seconds
    83. Healing and renewal through public history
    What is public history? Find out about its potential to serve the common good—and how the Mary Baker Eddy Library contributes to it.
    2 October 2023, 1:16 pm
  • 8 minutes 33 seconds
    BONUS: Response to Episode 82, with Mark Sappenfield, Editor of The Christian Science Monitor
    Enjoy this bonus track, which traces The Christian Science Monitor’s commitment to solutions-oriented journalism back to its 1908 founding.
    15 September 2023, 10:50 pm
  • 33 minutes 53 seconds
    82. The Christian Science Monitor, social work, and Boston’s settlement houses
    Find out about visionary reporting on a new Progressive Era institution designed to improve the lives of the urban poor.
    1 September 2023, 1:53 am
  • 31 minutes 16 seconds
    81. Listener’s choice: revisiting “Women’s rights—and a woman’s right to interpret the Bible”
    Listen to this gem from the Seekers and Scholars archive, and learn about why it was particularly meaningful to the college student who chose it.
    1 August 2023, 4:01 am
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