100 years on: what does a 100-year Google snapshot tell us of public interest in Mary Baker Eddy?

Next in our “100 years on, and still going strong” series, celebrating the continued resonance of Mary Baker Eddy’s life and ideas 100 years after her passing. Google Labs has furnished the world with an amazing new tool called the Ngram Viewer. Put a topic in a search box, press return, and you get a graph [...]

A Saturday night at the movies…Val Kilmer shares his screenplay on Mark Twain/Mary Baker Eddy

My wife Jenny and I enjoyed a Saturday night viewing of Strength of Spirit: Engaging with Mary Baker Eddy 100 Years Later a video recently posted on the website of The Mary Baker Library. As reported on christianscience.com “On September 23, the Library staff set the scene with a presentation on the life of Mary [...]

Christopher Hithchens on Mark Twain and Christian Science – a response is published in The Spectator

A slightly edited version of a letter submitted in response to comments made by Christopher Hitchens about Mark Twain and Christian Science in The Spectator has been published in this week’s issue of the same magazine: http://tinyurl.com/ycsl76q For the record, here are a couple of the positive things Mark Twain did say about Christian Science and Mary Baker [...]