Did you know that International Women’s Day was first observed in the early 1900s? And I was surprised to learn that protests against gender inequality started much earlier, with the First Women’s Rights Convention being held in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848.
It’s interesting to me that this was also the era in which the founder of this news organization, Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910), experienced profound changes in her life. She went from being a single mother struggling with chronic health problems and financial difficulties to being a well-known religious leader and the founder of a worldwide church.
Despite the inequality faced by women of her time, Mary Baker Eddy succeeded as an author, publisher, editor, healer, lecturer – all at a time when women could not vote and were considered incapable of managing their own affairs. Her book on spirituality and healing (“Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures”) was included on the Women’s National Book Association list of “75 Books by Women Whose Words Have Changed the World.” (Listen to this complete article or continue reading)
In this short podcast, Never Fatherless, Cathrine describes how she learnt to recognise the fatherhood qualities of God all around her and how this took away a sense of loss. It also helped her to gain a higher sense of motherhood and in fact enriched all her relationships when she saw them in this new light as qualities of God.
A Daily Lift by Susan Booth Mack Snipes, a Christians Science practitioner and teacher
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In this short podcast Susan talks about how realising God as the source of all right ideas helped her to see through a problem her teenage daughter was having with peers who were shutting her out of their friendship circle.
Beloved let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar, for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
(The Bible, NKJV, I John 4: 7, 8, 20)
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
This recording is of the readings on the topic: Peace
Spiritual living and blessedness are the only evidences, by which we can recognize true existence and feel the unspeakable peace which comes from an all-absorbing spiritual love. (p264)
Revenge is inadmissible. (p22)
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy
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