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Seekers and Scholars — 100 episodes

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105. Building character and community—Christian Science Organizations at college and university

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104. Christian Science and women innovators

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103. Poetry at the Christian Science Reading Room

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102. Reading Genesis with Marilynne Robinson

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101. Tender and true—discussing archives at the American Society of Church History

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100. Caring for China—Sarah Pike Conger and the Empress Dowager

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99. Revisiting Violet Oakley’s spiritual vision and trailblazing art

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98. New insights at the Archives Open House

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97. Spiritual and musical evolutions in the Christian Science Hymnal

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96. “Find ourselves in the place just right”—Shakers and Christian Science

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95. Terms of endearment—Mary Baker Eddy and New Hampshire

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94. In conversation—the Joseph Smith and Mary Baker Eddy papers

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93. Listener’s choice: Revisiting “Psalms of Life—Mary Baker Eddy and 19th-century American poetry”

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92. Concord—spiritual quest and “the word” in the computer age

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91. The Clerk and “the doings of the [Mother] Church”

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90. Cherishing her Congregational roots—Mary Baker Eddy and the Boutons

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89. Mary Baker Eddy’s argument with animal magnetism and “vitalism”

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88. Christian Science meets African women theologians

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87. Frances Willard, Mary Baker Eddy, and Christian social reform

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86. The Christian Science Publishing House—a building for the world

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85. The Piskos—to Vienna with love from The Christian Science Monitor

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84. “Christian Scientists in Zion” at the Mormon History Association

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83. Healing and renewal through public history

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BONUS: Response to Episode 82, with Mark Sappenfield, Editor of The Christian Science Monitor

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82. The Christian Science Monitor, social work, and Boston’s settlement houses

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81. Listener’s choice: revisiting “Women’s rights—and a woman’s right to interpret the Bible”

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80. The marriages of Mary Baker Eddy

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79. Reissuing a masterwork—a new edition of Robert Peel’s Mary Baker Eddy biography

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78. Ministries of divine healing in twentieth-century Britain

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77. Bette Graham, Liquid Paper, and the spiritual force of an original idea

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76. Christian Scientist women and Alice Paul’s campaign for women’s rights

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75. The spirit of 1886 in the Mary Baker Eddy Papers

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74. Archives Open House at The Mary Baker Eddy Library

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73. Broadway’s best—spiritual quest, Antoinette Perry, and the Tony Awards

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72. Mary Baker Eddy, corresponding across family divides

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71. The history of Communion in Christian Science church services

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70. Marcella Craft, opera star, and the origins of Christian Science church soloing

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69. American religion in World War II

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68. The Christian Science encounter with interfaith at the 1893 World’s Parliament of Religions

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67. “Ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances”—working in Mary Baker Eddy’s household

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66. BONUS: Elisa Mazzucato Young—a musical and Christian Science story

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65. The Monitor in Moscow

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64. Bicknell Young—a Mormon and Christian Science story

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63. Discovering the Civil War in the Mary Baker Eddy Papers

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62. Women abstract artists—their spirituality and contemporary relevance

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61. Mary Baker Eddy—writing without a room of her own

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60. Ruth Barrett Phelps—presiding over the king of instruments

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59. The revelatory power of oral histories

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58. Examining the evidence—forensic handwriting analysis at The Mary Baker Eddy Library

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57. New religious movements and nineteenth-century revolutions

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56. Meet the editors of the Mary Baker Eddy Papers

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55. Muscular Christianity, the YMCA, and Mary Baker Eddy

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54. Community and memory in The Mary Baker Eddy Library archives

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53. The education of an archivist at The Mary Baker Eddy Library

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52. Jean Stapleton and the spiritual dimensions of “All in the Family”

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51. Mastering the press: Arthur Brisbane’s famed interview with Mary Baker Eddy

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50. The story behind the story—biographies of Mary Baker Eddy

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49. The Mary Baker Eddy Library at the American Academy of Religion

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48. Psalms of Life—Mary Baker Eddy and 19th-century American poetry

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47. Women in Religion on Wikipedia

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46. National History Day during a pandemic

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45. Part Two: Mary Baker Eddy and the Puritans

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44. Part One: Mary Baker Eddy and the Puritans

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43. Martha Matilda Harper and the beauty of social entrepreneurship

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42. The Matsukata women—enlightening Japanese-American relations

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41. Religion and public health during the 1918–1919 Spanish flu

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40. Research on geography and religion in Boston, and African American history

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39. Celebrating the Nineteenth Amendment with the Women of History series

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38. Composing a new heritage in early twentieth-century hymns

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37. Windows into spiritual autobiography

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36. Reclaiming Vida Goldstein—superstar of women’s suffrage

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35. American religious history as family history—the Adamses

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34. The papers of Erwin D. Canham, editor of The Christian Science Monitor

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33. National History Day—transforming students’ lives in archives

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32. Depth of field—photography in The Mary Baker Eddy Library collections

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31. Religious literacy and the 21st-century mind

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30. The Bible as revolutionary text in America

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29. Mary Baker Eddy and Boston’s complex religious history (Part Two)

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28. Mary Baker Eddy and Boston’s complex religious history (Part One)

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27. Podcasts and the human voice of higher education

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26. Hymns for our time—a conversation with Ruth Duck

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25. Gender, spirituality, and the architecture of The Mother Church

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24. Women’s voices in Mormon and Christian Science history — commonalities/differences

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23. Inspiring contemporary hymns—migration and refuge

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22. A great religious experiment—military chaplaincy (Part Three)

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21. A great religious experiment—military chaplaincy (Part Two)

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20. A great religious experiment—military chaplaincy (Part One)

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19. State of the heart of oral history

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18. Mark Twain, Mary Baker Eddy, and the news

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17. Media, religion, and the public scholar

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16. Among the first to stand—Christian Science and women in Parliament (Part Two)

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15. Among the first to stand—Christian Science and women in Parliament (Part One)

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14. Empathy and religious scholarship

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13. Women’s rights—and a woman’s right to interpret the Bible

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12. Religious tolerance and the art of Violet Oakley

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11. Mary Baker Eddy as a copyright activist (Part Two)

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10. Mary Baker Eddy as a copyright activist (Part One)

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09. The transformation of Christmas

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08. The spiritual and cultural heritage of Thanksgiving

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07. Lives and Lessons of Christian Science Military Chaplains