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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.
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.
The First Church of Christ, Scientist is the Mother Church and administrative headquarters of the Christian Science Church. The Christian Science Board of Directors is a five-person executive entity created by Mary Baker Eddy to conduct the business of the Christian Science Church under the terms defined in the by-laws of the Church ...
[75] [76] Christian Scientists sometimes tell their stories of healing at weekly testimony meetings at local Christian Science churches, or publish them in the church's magazines including The Christian Science Journal printed monthly since 1883, the Christian Science Sentinel printed weekly since 1898, and The Herald of Christian Science a ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Christian Science Journal is an official monthly publication of the Church of Christ, Scientist through the Christian Science Publishing Society, founded in 1883 by Mary Baker Eddy. [1] The first edition appeared on April 14, 1883, bearing the subtitle, "An Independent Family Paper to Promote Health and Morals". [ 2 ]
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]