All Episodes
Seekers and Scholars — 100 episodes
105. Building character and community—Christian Science Organizations at college and university
104. Christian Science and women innovators
103. Poetry at the Christian Science Reading Room
102. Reading Genesis with Marilynne Robinson
101. Tender and true—discussing archives at the American Society of Church History
100. Caring for China—Sarah Pike Conger and the Empress Dowager
99. Revisiting Violet Oakley’s spiritual vision and trailblazing art
98. New insights at the Archives Open House
97. Spiritual and musical evolutions in the Christian Science Hymnal
96. “Find ourselves in the place just right”—Shakers and Christian Science
95. Terms of endearment—Mary Baker Eddy and New Hampshire
94. In conversation—the Joseph Smith and Mary Baker Eddy papers
93. Listener’s choice: Revisiting “Psalms of Life—Mary Baker Eddy and 19th-century American poetry”
92. Concord—spiritual quest and “the word” in the computer age
91. The Clerk and “the doings of the [Mother] Church”
90. Cherishing her Congregational roots—Mary Baker Eddy and the Boutons
89. Mary Baker Eddy’s argument with animal magnetism and “vitalism”
88. Christian Science meets African women theologians
87. Frances Willard, Mary Baker Eddy, and Christian social reform
86. The Christian Science Publishing House—a building for the world
85. The Piskos—to Vienna with love from The Christian Science Monitor
84. “Christian Scientists in Zion” at the Mormon History Association
83. Healing and renewal through public history
BONUS: Response to Episode 82, with Mark Sappenfield, Editor of The Christian Science Monitor
82. The Christian Science Monitor, social work, and Boston’s settlement houses
81. Listener’s choice: revisiting “Women’s rights—and a woman’s right to interpret the Bible”
80. The marriages of Mary Baker Eddy
79. Reissuing a masterwork—a new edition of Robert Peel’s Mary Baker Eddy biography
78. Ministries of divine healing in twentieth-century Britain
77. Bette Graham, Liquid Paper, and the spiritual force of an original idea
76. Christian Scientist women and Alice Paul’s campaign for women’s rights
75. The spirit of 1886 in the Mary Baker Eddy Papers
74. Archives Open House at The Mary Baker Eddy Library
73. Broadway’s best—spiritual quest, Antoinette Perry, and the Tony Awards
72. Mary Baker Eddy, corresponding across family divides
71. The history of Communion in Christian Science church services
70. Marcella Craft, opera star, and the origins of Christian Science church soloing
69. American religion in World War II
68. The Christian Science encounter with interfaith at the 1893 World’s Parliament of Religions
67. “Ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances”—working in Mary Baker Eddy’s household
66. BONUS: Elisa Mazzucato Young—a musical and Christian Science story
65. The Monitor in Moscow
64. Bicknell Young—a Mormon and Christian Science story
63. Discovering the Civil War in the Mary Baker Eddy Papers
62. Women abstract artists—their spirituality and contemporary relevance
61. Mary Baker Eddy—writing without a room of her own
60. Ruth Barrett Phelps—presiding over the king of instruments
59. The revelatory power of oral histories
58. Examining the evidence—forensic handwriting analysis at The Mary Baker Eddy Library
57. New religious movements and nineteenth-century revolutions
56. Meet the editors of the Mary Baker Eddy Papers
55. Muscular Christianity, the YMCA, and Mary Baker Eddy
54. Community and memory in The Mary Baker Eddy Library archives
53. The education of an archivist at The Mary Baker Eddy Library
52. Jean Stapleton and the spiritual dimensions of “All in the Family”
51. Mastering the press: Arthur Brisbane’s famed interview with Mary Baker Eddy
50. The story behind the story—biographies of Mary Baker Eddy
49. The Mary Baker Eddy Library at the American Academy of Religion
48. Psalms of Life—Mary Baker Eddy and 19th-century American poetry
47. Women in Religion on Wikipedia
46. National History Day during a pandemic
45. Part Two: Mary Baker Eddy and the Puritans
44. Part One: Mary Baker Eddy and the Puritans
43. Martha Matilda Harper and the beauty of social entrepreneurship
42. The Matsukata women—enlightening Japanese-American relations
41. Religion and public health during the 1918–1919 Spanish flu
40. Research on geography and religion in Boston, and African American history
39. Celebrating the Nineteenth Amendment with the Women of History series
38. Composing a new heritage in early twentieth-century hymns
37. Windows into spiritual autobiography
36. Reclaiming Vida Goldstein—superstar of women’s suffrage
35. American religious history as family history—the Adamses
34. The papers of Erwin D. Canham, editor of The Christian Science Monitor
33. National History Day—transforming students’ lives in archives
32. Depth of field—photography in The Mary Baker Eddy Library collections
31. Religious literacy and the 21st-century mind
30. The Bible as revolutionary text in America
29. Mary Baker Eddy and Boston’s complex religious history (Part Two)
28. Mary Baker Eddy and Boston’s complex religious history (Part One)
27. Podcasts and the human voice of higher education
26. Hymns for our time—a conversation with Ruth Duck
25. Gender, spirituality, and the architecture of The Mother Church
24. Women’s voices in Mormon and Christian Science history — commonalities/differences
23. Inspiring contemporary hymns—migration and refuge
22. A great religious experiment—military chaplaincy (Part Three)
21. A great religious experiment—military chaplaincy (Part Two)
20. A great religious experiment—military chaplaincy (Part One)
19. State of the heart of oral history
18. Mark Twain, Mary Baker Eddy, and the news
17. Media, religion, and the public scholar
16. Among the first to stand—Christian Science and women in Parliament (Part Two)
15. Among the first to stand—Christian Science and women in Parliament (Part One)
14. Empathy and religious scholarship
13. Women’s rights—and a woman’s right to interpret the Bible
12. Religious tolerance and the art of Violet Oakley
11. Mary Baker Eddy as a copyright activist (Part Two)
10. Mary Baker Eddy as a copyright activist (Part One)
09. The transformation of Christmas
08. The spiritual and cultural heritage of Thanksgiving
07. Lives and Lessons of Christian Science Military Chaplains