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The Christian Science Sentinel (originally the Christian Science Weekly) is a magazine published by the Christian Science Publishing Society based in Boston, Massachusetts. The magazine was launched by Mary Baker Eddy in 1898. [1] It includes articles, editorials, and accounts of healings from a Christian Science point of view.
The Christian Science Journal and Christian Science Sentinel publish anecdotal healing testimonials (they published 53,900 between 1900 and April 1989), [127] which must be accompanied by statements from three verifiers: "people who know [the testifier] well and have either witnessed the healing or can vouch for [the testifier's] integrity in ...
She also founded the Christian Science Journal in 1883, [96] a monthly magazine aimed at the church's members and, in 1898, [97] the Christian Science Sentinel, a weekly religious periodical written for a more general audience, and the Herald of Christian Science, a religious magazine with editions in many languages. [98]
Marietta Thomas Webb (1864–1951) was a Christian healer. She was one of the first Black Americans listed in The Christian Science Journal as a practitioner of healing through prayer, and the only Black American to have a personal healing testimony selected to appear in Mary Baker Eddy's seminal book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
There is also an international weekly newspaper, The Christian Science Monitor, which has won several Pulitzer Prizes. [5] The Monitor is a secular newspaper; however, there is one religious article in each issue. [6] The Publishing Society is managed by a three-person Board of Trustees [2] under the authority of the Christian Science Board of ...
John also served as editor of The Christian Science Journal, Christian Science Sentinel and The Herald of Christian Science for three years, manager of the committee on publication, and was a member of the church's Board of Directors from 1970 to 1980, as well as holding various other positions in the church including practitioner and teacher.
The Herald of Christian Science is a magazine published in multiple languages by the Christian Science Publishing Society. It was first published as a German magazine in 1903, and grew to include other languages as well. The magazine is currently published in four languages [a] with informal translations in 10 other languages including braille.
Christian Science at the time was the fastest growing religion in the United States. The church had 27 members in 1879, and 65,717 in 1906 when McClure's began its research. [23] [b] In 1890 there were just seven Christian Science churches in the US; by 1910, a few years after the McClure's article, there were 1,104. [25]