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Eddy, Mary Baker
Mary Baker Eddy 1821-1910
(Full name Mary Ann Morse Baker dover Patterson Eddy) American nonfiction writer, autobiographer, editor, poet, and songwriter.
Eddy was the founder and controversial figurehead of Christian Science, a religion based on spiritual healing. Through her writings and public promotion of Christian Science, as well as careful management of the church that evolved from her teachings, Eddy established the basis for an international religious organization that would remain viable after her death.
Biographical Information
Born in Bow, New Hampshire, Eddy never attended school but read extensively on her own. At the age of sixteen she began contributing prose and poems, usually of a religious nature, to various publications. Widowed shortly after her first marriage and abandoned by her second husband, she lived for many years in genteel poverty and obscurity. She became interested in mental healing as an alternative to conventional medicine in 1862 after a consultation with Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, a specialist in animal magnetism. In 1866 she injured her spine in a slip-and-fall accident, but recovered within a few days without medical help. She experienced this cure as a revelation that spiritual power was the only true way to alleviate human suffering. As she formulated this insight into a new system of religious belief, she began to attract followers with her teachings and worked on the book that would prove to be the primary text in Christian Science theology, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (1875). The Church of Christ, Scientist, was chartered in 1879, with Eddy later ordained as its pastor, and the Massachusetts Metaphysical College was established in 1881 to train Christian Science practitioners. Eddy also founded and edited the Christian Science Journal, one of several periodicals that would be instrumental in publicizing the new religion. When Eddy died in 1910, there were over 600 Christian Science places of worship, with central authority resting in the Mother Church in Boston. As a result of Eddy's sustained efforts to promote her ideas through books and periodicals, the church has maintained a lasting influence through such venues as the Christian Science Reading Rooms, which make writings by Eddy and other church-issued publications available to the general public, and the highly respected newspaper The Christian Science Monitor.
Major Works
Eddy established Science and Health and the Bible as the key texts of Christian Science, and readings from both books are central to the Christian Science religious ceremony. Science and Health underwent several revisions during Eddy's lifetime, once reportedly under the editorship of the Unitarian minister James Henry Wiggin. The principles of Christian Science set forth in Science and Health were inspired by the descriptions of Christ's restoration of the sick and dead in the Bible, which Eddy believed demonstrated that divine healing power is available to ordinary human beings. The material world is an illusion, and so sin, physical infirmity, and mortality can be conquered by methodically focusing on the reality of God's spiritual realm. Eddy published a number of inspirational books under the auspices of the Christian Science Church, including The People's Idea of God (1883), Christian Science: No and Yes (1887), and Christian Science versus Pantheism (1898). She also wrote an autobiography, Retrospection and Introspection (1891), as well as hymns, poems, and articles for Christian Science newspapers and magazines.
Critical Reception
As a powerful religious leader who advocated faith healing over conventional medical treatment, Eddy became a target of intense media attention, much of it negative. Since Eddy relied on her publications to promote Christian Science and to shape her own public image, these were closely scrutinized by her critics. She was accused of falsifying aspects of her life in her autobiographical writings and plagiarizing her ideas about mental healing from Quimby and other sources. In 1907 and 1908, the magazine McClure's published a series of articles profiling Eddy, written by Georgine Milmine and edited by Willa Cather, that revealed unflattering facts about her life and dealings with the church. Concerned that Christian Science might become a dominant American religion, Mark Twain published Christian Science (1907), which used Eddy's writings as the basis for a rationalist argument against her teachings.
Principal Works
The Science of Man (nonfiction) 1870
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (nonfiction) 1875
Christian Healing (nonfiction) 1880
The People's Idea of God (nonfiction) 1883
Historical Sketch of Metaphysical Healing (nonfiction) 1885
Defence of Christian Science (nonfiction) 1885
Christian Science: No and Yes (nonfiction) 1887
Rudiments and Rules of Divine Science (nonfiction) 1887
Unity of Good and Unreality of Evil (nonfiction) 1888
Retrospection and Introspection (autobiography) 1891
Rudimental Divine Science (nonfiction) 1891
The Manual of the Mother Church (nonfiction) 1895
Miscellaneous Writings (nonfiction) 1896
Christian Science versus Pantheism (nonfiction) 1898
Messages to the Mother Church (nonfiction) 1900-02
The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany (nonfiction) 1913
Arthur James Todd (essay date 1948)
SOURCE: "Christian Science," in Religion in the Twentieth Century, edited by Vergillius Ferm, The Philosophical Library, 1948, pp. 357-78.
[In the following essay, Todd provides an overview of Christian Science and of the principal tenets of Eddy's writings.]
Christian Science is the system of religious thought and the denomination founded by Mary Baker Eddy in 1879 as the outcome of her discovery of this religious truth at Swampscott, Massachusetts, in 1866, and her publication of the first edition of its basic textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, in 1875. From childhood Mrs. Eddy had been deeply religious and a profound student of the Bible, and had long been inclined to attribute all causation to God, and to regard Him as infinitely good, and the Soul and source of all reality. But in 1866 a lifetime of ill-health was climaxed by what was regarded as a fatal injury from which she recovered almost instantaneously after reading an account of healing in Matthew's Gospel. That seeming miracle set her mind to work. It appeared to her as a divine revelation, the prophecy of a revolution in human thinking, and an inspired call to action. She describes (in her brief autobiography Retrospection and Introspection) how she withdrew from society for about three years "to ponder [her] mission, to search the Scriptures, to find the Science of Mind that should take the things of God and show them to the creature, and reveal the great curative Principle,—Deity." In this process of seeking for a solution of the problem of Mind-healing she readily grasped (as recorded in her textbook) "the Principle of all harmonious Mind-action to be God, and that cures were produced in primitive Christian healing by holy, uplifting faith." But that was not enough. She insisted on knowing the process, the method, the rationale, the Science of such healing, and finally reached absolute conclusions. But again mere theory, however well-founded and consistent, did not satisfy her. Hence for several years she put her discovery and conclusions to practical test by healing many sorts of disease and human disorders, both organic and functional, and by teaching students to heal. This experience led her to write and publish her basic book. It had been her earnest expectation that her discovery would be welcomed as a fresh spiritual dynamic by all religious denominations of those who professed belief in the Bible and in the word and works of Jesus the Christ. But it soon became evident that her discovery was ahead of the general frontage of contemporary Christianity; therefore it appeared necessary to found a separate church to preserve the purity of the teachings and practice of Christian Science and to more effectively present it to the world. Accordingly in 1879 she and her small band of followers organized the Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston for the avowed purpose, as expressed by her, "to commemorate the word and works of our Master, which should reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing." Ten years later this Church was dissolved, and in 1892 the present Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, known as The Mother Church, was organized. At present there are approximately 3,000 authorized branches of this Church established throughout the world. It is contrary to the basic governing Manual of The Mother Church, written by Mrs. Eddy, to give out statistics of membership, but authoritative newspaper accounts of the dedication of the Extension of the Original Mother Church in 1906 expressed astonishment at a movement which in thirty years had grown from a "mere handful of members" to a body of adherents numbering probably a million. Mrs. Eddy in a Message to her Church in 1901 answering a critic of her work, challenged him to match a record which "could start thirty years ago without a Christian Scientist on earth, and in this interval number one million." It may be asserted with confidence that the number of adherents has rapidly increased in the forty-five years since that challenge was issued.
Such in brief is the outline of the first eighty years of Christian Science history. Against this background certain significant details may now be presented. First, how does the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science define it?
In her little volume Rudimental Divine Science, she defines Christian Science as "the law of God, the law of good, interpreting and demonstrating the divine Principle and rule of universal harmony." Any work of scholarship is primarily an extended definition of its primary concept or theme; hence it is not surprising to find on nearly every page of Mrs. Eddy's writings some new turn of thought, some phrase or term which adds a new flash of meaning to the expression Christian Science. Perhaps the most compact summary of her revelation opens the chapter on Science, Theology, and Medicine in her textbook: "In the year 1866, I discovered the Christ Science or divine laws of Life, Truth, and Love, and named my discovery Christian Science." But elsewhere occur such revealing synonyms as Science of Mind, Mental Science, Science of Mind-healing, Science of mental healing, Divine Science, Science of Christianity, Science of God, Science of good, Science of Life, Science of being, Science of man and the universe, etc. The purpose of Christian Science is to correct wrong human thinking and to replace it with Godlike understanding. Indeed on the very first page of the Preface to Science and Health Mrs. Eddy sounds the trumpet call: "The time for thinkers has come." In so far as clarifying terms or phrases will wing their way to the target of human consciousness she utilizes them to the utmost.
Through Christian Science the redoubtable term "metaphysics" takes on new significance. In the correction of false human thinking Christian metaphysics is the essential tool. Mrs. Eddy posits mental causation as primary by saying, "Christian Science explains all cause and effect as mental, not physical," and at once relates causation to divinity by declaring that "God is the Principle of divine metaphysics."
At this point it should be stressed that Christian Science is not, as many have supposed, just a recrudescence of deistic philosophy, nor primarily a method of healing. It is a philosophy of God, man, the inter-relationship of God to man, and man to man, and of the universe of which God is the sole creator and man His indispensable expression. It is a system of healing, but as its Discoverer clearly pointed out, "the mission of Christian Science now, as in the time of its earlier demonstration, is not primarily one of physical healing. Now, as then, signs and wonders are wrought in the metaphysical healing of physical disease; but these signs are only to demonstrate its divine origin,—to attest the reality of the higher mission of the Christ-power to take away the sins of the world."
Hence Christian Science is a religion based upon a specific content of spiritual truth. It has a literature, an organization, a basic Manual and a varied pattern of activities. But have Christian Scientists any religious "creed"? Mrs. Eddy squarely anticipated this question and answered it in her text book: "They have not, if by that term is meant doctrinal beliefs. The following is a brief exposition of the important points, or religious tenets, of Christian Science:—
- As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired Word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal Life.
- We acknowledge and adore one supreme and infinite God. We acknowledge His Son, one Christ; the Holy Ghost or divine Comforter; and man in God's image and likeness.
- We acknowledge God's forgiveness of sin in the destruction of sin and the spiritual understanding that casts out evil as unreal. But the belief in sin is punished so long as the belief lasts.
- We acknowledge Jesus' atonement as the evidence of divine, efficacious Love, unfolding man's unity with God through Christ Jesus the Wayshower; and we acknowledge that man is saved through Christ, through Truth, Life, and Love as demonstrated by the Galilean Prophet in healing the sick and overcoming sin and death.
- We acknowledge that the crucifixion of Jesus and his resurrection served to uplift faith to understand eternal Life, even the allness of Soul, Spirit, and the nothingness of matter.
- And we solemnly promise to watch, and pray for that Mind to be in us which was also in Christ Jesus; to do unto others as we would have them do unto us; and to be merciful, just and pure."
Christian Science is in the line of Christian tradition, indeed of Protestant tradition, but is not to be considered as merely another Protestant sect or denomination. Current practice in radio circles and elsewhere is to set up four major religious classifications in the United States, namely, Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, and Christian Scientist. The Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science was brought up in the atmosphere of New England Protestantism, and was for nearly forty years a member of the Congregational church, taught in Sunday School, and participated actively in current theological discussions. Only when it became necessary to establish her own church did she sever the link to the church which had nourished her. But her own church in no wise disavowed historic Christianity. Mrs. Eddy never claimed to have invented any new doctrine, invoked any new powers, nor introduced any new healing methods. She did claim that Christian Science is the Comforter promised by the Master in John's Gospel. She did claim that her discovery is the answer to prophecy as recorded in both the Old and the New Testament. She did claim that her method of healing was that of Jesus and his students, disciples, apostles. Thus she traces Christian Science practice directly to Christ Jesus.
Christian Science is not new: it is as ancient as God-like thinking and spiritual perception. Why then did it need to be "discovered"? Mrs. Eddy replies: "Our Master healed the sick, practised Christian healing, and taught the generalities of its divine Principle to his students; but he left no definite rule for demonstrating this Principle of healing and preventing disease. This rule remained to be discovered in Christian Science."
Hence the ideal set forth by Mrs. Eddy is to make every Christian Scientist his own practitioner. Is not that the significance of her prophecy: "When the Science of being is universally understood, every man will be his own physician, and Truth will be the universal panacea"?
Let it be reiterated that Christian Science does not actually claim nor enjoy a monopoly on spiritual healing. Some two score religious denominations listed by the United States Census indicate that "divine healing" occupies some place more or less significant in their systems of belief. It remained, however, for Christian Science to bring out into the foreground what the other sectors of Christendom had allowed to lapse, become obsolescent, or be relegated to back stage as peculiar to some remote "apostolic age."
Enough has been said now to warrant turning to answer certain inevitable questions. For example, how can Christian Science reject the idea and the fact of evil, since it is so obvious, so universal, so persistent, so powerful? First, let it be clear that to deny the reality or power of evil is not to ignore it. Hundreds of references to evil in Mrs. Eddy's writings prove keen awareness of the problem. In both the teaching and practice of Christian Science students are warned to detect, recognize, uncover, handle and destroy the claim of any particular form of error or evil to existence, reality, or power to injure. This rejection of evil is fundamental to Science: to admit it would nullify spiritual healing from the outset.
It is obvious that, as Mrs. Eddy declares, the "foundation of evil is laid on a belief in something besides God." That something is matter. Reject that belief, and error disappears with its suppositional origin, history, and effects. After such heroic surgery the world is welcome to whatever seems to remain of evil's claim to be. Thus Christian Science offers not merely an authoritative religion and a demonstrable system of healing, but also a sound and coherent philosophy of life. Indeed on this account many have accepted it who had no immediate need of its healing ministry.
But what of the demand of Christian Science to be rated as not only a Science but the Science? Certainly Christian Science claims not only to have searched for truth, but to have found Truth, to have reduced this basic knowledge of Truth to a system which is eminently communicable; to have brought to light general or fundamental laws, and to have made this organized system of knowledge available in work, life and the search for truth.
It declares that this Truth includes all known or knowable fact, phenomenon, or action. What other knowledge remains to be apprehended or organized? What becomes of physical science, so-called? How does Christian Science regard the apparent sweeping domination of contemporary thought by the physical sciences? To the extent that they base themselves upon a concept of elementary material substance or force, it rejects them as a valid statement of ultimate truth. In short, Science rejects matter as without existence, reality, actuality, substance, or power. As put in the Scientific Statement of Being, quoted from Science and Health, which climaxes every Christian Science Sunday church service, "There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all."
In this rejection of matter as a reality and the basis for true knowledge, Mrs. Eddy anticipated by half a century such philosophers as Whitehead, who complain that for three hundred years human science has limited itself by its assumption of basic materiality. She puts the whole trouble in a nutshell: "Matter is an error of statement. This error in the premise leads to errors in the conclusion in every statement into which it enters."
When Mrs. Eddy wrote, "We tread on forces … Divine Science, rising above physical theories, excludes matter, resolves things into thoughts, and replaces the objects of material sense with spiritual ideas … Material so-called gases and forces are counterfeits of the spiritual forces of divine Mind," such bold challenges shocked and even amused the academic world and scientific orthodoxy. But the past quarter century witnesses a steady albeit cautious approach of many of the world's leading physical scientists to a not dissimilar ideology.
For example, Sir James Jeans speaks of annihilating matter, and frankly confesses that "the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine." Professor Eddington also speaks of matter as "an imaginary something," and concludes that "the physical world is entirely abstract and without 'actuality' apart from its linkage to consciousness." Dampier in the 3rd edition of his History of Science devotes a whole section to the "Evanescence of Matter," and likewise speaks of annihilating matter.
Christian Science does not, however, derive its validity from such corroborative testimony of physical scientists. It maintains hold on its status as Science by its utilization of accepted scientific methods and procedures, notably revelation (spiritual enlightenment); reason (gathering of factual data and utilization of inductive logic); demonstration (practical proofs).
Christian Science is an eminently practical way of life. Its Founder and Leader had an enormous fund of common sense and a lively wit along with the deepest grasp of spiritual truth since the days of Christ Jesus the Way-shower. Hence her constant urging to beware of running ahead of one's power to demonstrate one's spiritual attainments, and her insistent injunction not to ignore evil or erroneous material beliefs. For contrary to common apprehension, as we have already pointed out, Christian Science does not ignore what it regards as unreal. This religion teaches its adherents to forsake and overcome every form of error or evil on the basis of its unreality; that is, by demonstrating the true idea and fact of reality. This it teaches them to do by means of spiritual law and spiritual power. Thus the practice of Christian Science is not merely mental; it must be also spiritual. Indeed, it is truly mental only as it is absolutely spiritual.
Christian Scientists on this present plane of existence do not claim to have realized or manifested fully the spiritual perfection which the Bible teaches from the first chapter of Genesis, through the teachings of Jesus and the apostolic doctrine, to the final scene of St. John's apocalyptic revelation. Their more modest claim derives from their Leader's teaching that perfection must be won, and that "earth's preparatory school" becomes an instrument to this end. Human experience is the arena for the regeneration of the fleshly mind through Truth and for the substitution of better for poorer beliefs until absolute Truth is reached.
We have now set forth the justification of the term Christian Science as both Christian and scientific. Moreover it ascribes to itself nothing short of being the only true and valid science, Mind-science, the revelation of the infinite divinity in all His "nature, essence, and wholeness"; and it posits the unity, indeed the identity of Science and Christianity. Hence it cannot be classified as merely a Christian sect or another denomination, for it permeates and must eventually transform every other statement of the Christian message to mankind.
Such declarations will continue to provoke in the serious inquirer's mind a flock of questions, just as they did when the Discoverer of Christian Science first issued her challenge. Topping the list would probably stand this one: Do Christian Scientists believe in God? In her Message to The Mother Church for 1901, Mrs. Eddy gave a full and direct answer: "We hear it said the Christian Scientists have no God because their God is not a person.… The loyal Christian Scientists absolutely adopt Webster's definition of God, 'A Supreme Being,' and the Standard dictionary's definition of God, 'The one Supreme Being, self-existent and eternal.'"
Is Christian Science, then, a rather thin modern broth of Deism? When Mrs. Eddy was asked directly, Do you believe in God?, she replied: "I believe more in Him than do most Christians, for I have no faith in any other thing or being.… To me God is All. He is best understood as Supreme Being, as infinite and conscious Life, as the affectionate Father and Mother of all He creates."
The concordances to Mrs. Eddy's writings reveal how the allness of God permeates Christian Science, and how it derives not from Platonic, Hegelian, or any other philosophy, but directly from the Scriptures. And yet it does not indulge in mere Bible-worship. As noted in the Tenets already quoted, it accepts the "inspired Word of the Bible." Thus the Bible is a source, a guide, but not a fetish. God alone is to be adored, worshiped, and...
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Gail Parker (essay date 1970)
SOURCE: "Mary Baker Eddy and Sentimental Womanhood," in The New England Quarterly, Vol. XLIII, No. 1, March, 1970, pp. 3-18.
[In the following essay, Parker discusses Mary Baker Eddy and the Victorian notion of women as purely moral beings.]
As Mark Twain described her, Mary Baker Eddy was the very type of the American businessman, with a mouth full of moral phrases, and a totally unscrupulous head for profit. "She was always in the front seat when there was business to be done; in the front seat, with both eyes open, and looking out for Number One; in the front seat, working Mortal Mind with fine effectiveness and giving Immortal Mind a rest for Sunday." For Twain,...
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Robert B. Downs (essay date 1971)
SOURCE: "Mental Healer," in Famous American Books, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1971, pp. 147-54.
[In the following essay, Downs discusses Science and Health and Eddy's career.]
America has given the world two major religions—the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormonism, and the Church of Christ, Scientist, or Christian Science. The latter has the distinction of being the only religion founded by a woman.
Throughout the nineteenth century, during which both the Mormon and Christian Science churches were established, occult philosophies nourished. Nonconformist and Utopian movements attracted numerous adherents. Particularly...
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Mason Olds (essay date 1972)
SOURCE: "Mary Baker Eddy: A Sesquicentennial Acknowledgement," in Contemporary Review, Vol. 220, No. 1277, June, 1972, pp. 294-300.
[In the following essay, Olds discusses Eddy's life and religious beliefs.]
Today, most moderns view the real world as the world of sense experience. In this world there is flesh which we enjoy both seeing and touching. In this world there is also war, poverty, sickness, suffering and death. Because the world of the five senses has such a strong hold on us, many are driven to doubt the existence of a Supreme Being and the possibilities of immortality. Many feel that they have been cast into a world they did not create, and so they must...
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David Sowd (essay date 1973)
SOURCE: "The Dusky Genius of Mary Baker Eddy," in Ball State University Forum, Vol. XIV, No. 3, Summer, 1973, pp. 38-43.
[In the following essay, Sowd examines the culture and theoretical background from which Christian Science came.]
For Mark Twain, Mary Baker Eddy was "the most daring and masculine and masterful woman that has appeared on the earth in centuries," and he wrote of her: "Closely examined, painstakingly studied, she is easily the most interesting person on the planet, and in several ways as easily the most extraordinary woman that was ever born upon it."
But, contrary to what is most often asserted by her biographers, Mrs. Eddy did not...
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Stephen Gottschalk (essay date 1973)
SOURCE: "Conclusion: Christian Science and the American Pragmatic Orientation," in The Emergence of Christian Science in American Religious Life, University of California Press, 1973, pp. 275-93.
[In the following essay, Gottschalk examines the continuing influence of Christian Science.]
Christian Science can be best understood as a pragmatic interpretation of Christian revelation. It is the pragmatic character of Christian Science which most adequately conveys its distinctiveness as a religious teaching, most clearly illumines its relations with the patterns of American culture, and most fully explains the source of its appeal. To have used the term...
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Margery Fox (essay date 1978)
SOURCE: "Protest in Piety: Christian Science Revisited," in International Journal of Women's Studies, Vol. 1, No. 4, July/August, 1978, pp. 401-16.
[In the following essay, Fox offers an interdisciplinary interpretation of Christian Science, concluding that many Victorian women found social and intellectual freedom in the religion.]
This paper reexamines Christian Science, a 19th century American religious sect, in its sociohistorical setting using interdisciplinary sources and methods to develop a new interpretation of the movement's original social function. In giving historiography an anthropological reading, this work...
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Stephen J. Stein (essay date 1982)
SOURCE: "Retrospection and Introspection: The Gospel According to Mary Baker Eddy," in Harvard Theological Review, Vol. 75, No. 1, January, 1982, pp. 97-116.
[In the following essay, Stein explores Eddy's autobiography Retrospection and Introspection.]
In 1891 Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910) opened her auto-biography, Retrospection and Introspection, with a romanticized account of her family tree entitled "Ancestral Shadows." Little more than one hundred pages later she closed her presentation with a confident prediction that in future centuries the "Tree of Life" would "blossom" under the influence of "Divine Science," benefiting all the nations. Between...
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L. Brent Bohlke (essay date 1982)
SOURCE: Willa Cather and The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy," in American Literature, Vol. 54, No. 2, May, 1982, pp. 288-94.
[In the following essay, Bohlke explores Willa Cather's connection to Eddy and Christian Science.]
As with many other writers of fiction whose foundations were laid in journalism, the total number of words which came from the pen of Willa Cather will never be known. Besides the great number of unsigned articles which appeared in numerous newspapers and other publications, Cather also published several stories, articles and reviews under pseudonyms. John P. Hinz, Bernice Slote, Mildred R. Bennett, Virginia Faulkner, William M. Curtin and others...
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R. Laurence Moore (essay date 1983)
SOURCE: "Mormonism, Christian Science, and Spiritualism," in The Occult in America: New Historical Perspectives, edited by Howard Kerr and Charles L. Crow, University of Illinois Press, 1983, pp. 135-61.
[In the following essay, Moore examines the connection between Christian Science and the occult.]
Mary Baker Eddy's first husband happened to be a Mason. Briefly but happily married to George Glover, she remained forever grateful for the help she received from his brother Masons when Glover died. Later, membership in a Masonic lodge was the single organizational affiliation that was not ruled incompatible with membership in the Christian Science mother church. However,...
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Susan Hill Lindley (essay date 1984)
SOURCE: "The Ambiguous Feminism of Mary Baker Eddy," in The Journal of Religion, Vol. 64, No. 3, July, 1984, pp. 318-31.
[In the following essay, Lindley discusses Eddy's feminist principles.]
Among women who have achieved recognition in the field of religion, Mary Baker Eddy frequently appears as a pioneer, a woman who founded and led a major religious movement and who used feminine imagery for the divine. During and since her lifetime, biographers and historians have presented portraits of the founder of Christian Science of an almost dizzying variety, from unadulterated adulation to devastating attack.
More recently, Mary Baker Eddy as woman has...
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David L. Weddle (essay date 1991)
SOURCE: "Christian Science Textbook: An Analysis of the Religious Authority of Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy," in Harvard Theological Review, Vol. 84, No. 3, July, 1991, pp. 273-97.
[In the following essay, Weddle argues that Christian Science is based on a "mythic vision of Christian history."]
A holy book arouses the greatest respect even among those (indeed, most of all among those) who do not read it … and the most sophistical reasoning avails nothing in the face of the decisive assertion, which beats down every objection: Thus it is written. It is for this reason that the passages in it which are to lay down an article of...
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Stephen Gottschalk (essay date 1991)
SOURCE: "Honesty, Blasphemy and The Destiny of the Mother Church," in The Christian Century, Vol. 108, No. 32, 1991, pp. 1028-1031.
[In the following essay, Gottschalk explores the controversial reception of Bliss Knapp's biography of Mary Baker Eddy.]
A book and an endowment have thrown the Church of Christ, Scientist, into its most significant controversy of the past 70 years. The dispute erupted after the church announced it would publish a book it had rejected over four decades ago, Bliss Knapp's The Destiny of the Mother Church, as part of a new biography series on church founder Mary Baker Eddy. Then in early September former church archivist Lee Z....
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Glen W. Gadberry (essay date 1994)
SOURCE: "Lost American Opportunity: Two 1931 German Plays about Mary Baker Eddy," in Comparative Drama, Vol. 28, No. 4, Winter, 1994/1995, pp. 486-509.
[In the following essay, Gadberry discusses two little-known German dramas about Eddy.]
My personal interpretation is that Germany has such a wealth of love, mercy, and other virtues found in the Christian faiths that we do not need an American sect, which in my opinion, does not teach humility, but strives for business success in addition to religious goals.—Ilse Langner (1931)
In 1930 and 1931, a critical biography and two plays about Mary Baker Glover Patterson...
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Robert David Thomas (essay date 1994)
SOURCE: "With Banners Still Flying: Christian Science and American Culture," in With Bleeding Footsteps: Mary Baker Eddy's Path to Religious Leadership, Alfred A. Knopf, 1994, pp. 291-310.
[In the following essay, Thomas surveys Eddy's impact on modern American social and religious thought]
Mary Baker Eddy's death in 1910 was not the passing of an ordinary woman. Obituaries appeared in big-city tabloids and small-town weeklies across the country. Thumbing through a sample of these editorial comments today, one is struck by their lack of neutrality. Even when progressive America admired her accomplishments, it was uncomfortable with her, not knowing where to fit her...
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Further Reading
Milmine, Georgine. The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the History of Christian Science. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1971, 495 p.
First major exposë of Eddy, based on series of articles in McClure's; originally published in 1909.
Peel, Robert. Mary Baker Eddy: The Years of Discovery. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1966, 372 p.
—. Mary Baker Eddy: The Years of Trial. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1971, 391 p.
—. Mary Baker Eddy: The Years of Authority. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1977, 528 p.
Three-part biography written...
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Another scrimmage yesterday in Columbus, and Regimbal and I went down to bring back a report. David is going to write something up for the front page, so I thought I'd just post a comment or two here.
In general, it was a miserable day for the offense. They did not score a touchdown before a cloudburst washed the event away with just a minute or two remaining.
Excusing that misery by referring to the strength of the Buckeye defense only goes so far. Of the four QB contenders, Taylor Graham probably had the best day. He sees the field and throws an accurate ball. Braxton Miller is still learning the playbook, and he didn't have many passing attempts...mostly just handed the ball off on run plays.
Guiton had a tough day. Lots of drops...and got sacked a couple times, including once on Johnny Simon's trifecta (sack, caused fumble, recovered fumble)
Simon and Johnathan Hankins are two freaking killer defensive tackles that will give opponents nightmarish Saturday afternoons this fall (and next fall).
On this day the biggest problem for the QB's was the bad hands of the receivers. I couldn't even count how many balls hit receivers (both backs and WR's) in the hands and bounced off or were dropped.
RS freshman CB Bradley Roby was probably the MVP of the day with two interceptions, but both were off of the hands of intended receivers (Philly Brown and Jaamal Berry)
Berry did have a 97-yard TD on a kickoff return in the special teams drills, and he and Rod Smith continue to look very good running the ball. Smith's thighs and calves are huge, and he breaks tackles with them. Best looking power back in S&G in a while.
We got a chance to talk with Simon, Mike Adams, Jordan Hall, Mike Brewster and Stoneburner afterward. David will probably have some of that in his article.
Guys who looked the best to me: Hankins, Simon, Smith, Berry, CB's Roby, Dionte Allen and Travis Howard, and field goal kicker Drew Basil.
Come fall, be very worried about the offense on 3rd and 10. Also be very confident about the defense on 3rd and 10.

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So this is always fun to discuss during the summer. Ive got 3 guys I see making a large contribution this season as true freshman.
- Braxton Miller is obvious
- Joel Hale- already getting rave reviews from Simon and Williams, and the kid is massive
- Devin Smith - were are very young at WR, and this kid is an amazing athlete.
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- Curtis Grant- maybe the best player in the class, but will be hard for him to crack the two deep as a true freshman with our crazy depth at LB. But I wouldnt be surprised to see him get alot of playing time.
-Doran Grant- Got a lot of young talent in the secondary. Can he jump Clarke, Brown, Roby and Bryant? Gonna be tough but he certainly has the talent.
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MOsley WOtta is not your typical rap act. With a driving message of unity, humor and acceptance, Mosley WOtta aka MOWO aka Jason Graham is well worth the trip, cost of admission or attempts to sneak in for free. Since his Bands official launch some 2 years months ago MOWO has opened for such influential Hiphop acts as Gift of Gab, Tricky, Ice Cube, Shabazz Palace, Talib Kweli, and The COUP As well as Pat Travers, Toots and the Maytals and Los Lonely Boys . His Band was voted best local music act in his home town of Bend Oregon. Graham is a receiver of the Arts Beautification and Culture award. As a poet Graham was an invited speaker on the "Mixed experience Panel" with New York Times bestselling author Heidi Durrow. MOsley WOtta was also a recently featured artist on Oregon Art Beat for his Writing Painting and Music. MOsley WOtta will be participating in the McMenamins Great Northwest Music tour in October 2012. His two front teeth are chipped from chewing on pens. His vision is perfect when he wears glasses and he almost always puts the lid down. MOsley WOtta is an honest performer, a captivating artist and dedicated father. If Top Forty music was based on exploring our commonalties and celebrating our differences MOsley WOtta would be a chart topper.
For other self aggrandizing remarks check MOWO out on facebook , or mosleywotta.com (links below).
You can contact his grandmother who brags about him to anyone she meets. You will find her at the library gift shop where she volunteers weekdays.
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Colebrooke is located within Mid Devon local authority area. Historically it formed part of Crediton Hundred. It falls within Cadbury Deanery for ecclesiastical purposes. The Deaneries are used to arrange the typescript Church Notes of B.F.Cresswell which are held in the Westcountry Studies Library. The population was 762 in 1801 650 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website. In 1641/2 184 adult males signed the Protestation returns.
A parish history file is held in Crediton Library. You can look for other material on the community by using the place search on the main local studies database. Further historical information is also available on the Genuki website.
Maps: The image below is of the Colebrooke area on Donn's one inch to the mile survey of 1765.
On the County Series Ordnance Survey mapping the area is to be found on 1:2,500 sheet 66/7,8 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 66NE
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SX769999. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SS70SE,SX79NE, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 113, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 191. Geological sheet 324 also covers the area.
Illustrations: The image below is of Colebrooke as included in the Library's illustrations collection. Other images can be searched for on the local studies catalogue.
Extract from Devon by W.G.Hoskins (1954), included by kind permission of the copyright holder:
COLEBROOKE has a good 14th to 15th century church (St. Andrew) standing boldly on an eminence. It is probably an early 14th century cruciform church, with a N. aisle opened out in the 15th century, and S. transept c. 1300 in date. The W. tower is a fine example of Perpendicular building. There are some unusual carved bench-ends, somewhat crudely executed and probably of 15th century date. Two bench-ends show the arms of Copies tone and Gorges, borne by grotesque men. As the Coplestone-Gorges marriage, which greatly enlarged the Coplestone estate, took place in 1472, this may be about the date of these benches. The priest's stall is early 16th century work, contemporary with the fine rood-screen which has linenfold panelling. The E. end of the N. aisle (the Coplestone chapel) is enclosed by screens with an unusual curvilinear design, similar to those at Brushford and Coldridge, c. 1500 in date.
Coplestone takes its name from the 10th century boundary stone, a carved granite pillar 10 ft. high on the main Exeter to Barnstaple road where three parishes meet. This copelan stan is referred to in a charter of 974. The Coplestones were seated on their estate of that name as early as Henry II's time, and still survive in the county, though they sold their ancestral home as long ago as 1659. The present house is unexciting Georgian.
Whelmstone Barton, an ancient free-hold estate first recorded in 1249 but probably older, is now a house of c. 1600 with a stone-arched gateway to its courtyard. A chapel dedicated to St. Mary was licensed here in 1374, and remains of it, with a braced roof of 14th century date, may be seen in a hay-loft in the farmyard. Landsend, a remote farm, was formerly a mansion, and had a medieval chapel. Combe is a late Georgian mansion.


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****The Official Save Our Chiefs Movement Thread****
pr_capone: Paypal / FB / Media Contact
Marty: FB / Twitter / Media Contact
GoChiefs: (Cassel's Reckoning) - FB / Research / Youtube
This team is just plain awful. The only consistently good play on offense comes from Bowe and Charles. Daboll is, I'm sure a great person, but an awful offensive coordinator. While I understand that trying to lead this team is "like trying to drive a car with 4 flat tires"... it is incomprehensible to me how he can misuse the little talent that he does have. Romeo was the right man for the job regarding Belcher. He is still not the guy to coach this team into playoff contention and a Super Bowl.
*****. I hope the rumors of the Titans being interested are true. I hope you did get your walking papers on your recent trip to Dallas. I cannot wait for you to be gone from Kansas City. You took an ailing team and smothered it Cassel, ineffective FA, and bad picks in the draft. Statistically... you are the worst thing to ever happen to Kansas City Chiefs football. I will be thrilled when your termination is announced.
There is still an unresolved issue with the donation from sports nutz and both parties are working to resolve it as quickly as possible. Because I cannot afford to pay for a 2 hour flight by myself... we are only planning on flying a single banner. Effectively, we only have $960ish in the bank until the matter is resolved.
If the funds come available in time for the banner to fly, we will fly a second banner as well.
Donations - Financials
10/7 Banner - $625.00
10/28 Banners - $1,250.00
11/16 Flyers - $375.55
11/16 Banner - $900.00
11/18 Banner - $575.00
11/25 Banner - $625.00
Total: $4,350.55
Current Paypal Balance: $1,984.05
Total Donations Received: $6,334.60
pr_capone - $100
HemiEd - $25
Wumbology - $25
GoShox - $10
loochy - $25
gochiefs_va - $25
BossChief - $50
Dayze - $25
alnorth - $25
Old Dog - $25
Raiderhader - $25
Steron - $20
Pestilence - $25
Boise_Chief - $25
acasas4 - $20
A Salt Weapon - $40
Reerun_KC - $25
ChiTown - $50
hometeam - $10
Monty - $25
teedubya - $50
Rexx- $20
Chief_For_Life58 - $20
Straight, No Chaser - $10
mlyonsd - $25
Raiderhater58 - $20
kcgizmo - $25
ghak99 - $20
Kyle DeLexus - $10
Swanman - $50
SomeRandomGirl - $15
scott free - $25
Frazod - $20
dmahurin - $10
Bwana - $25
bay_wolf (mod at reddit.com/r/kansascitychiefs) - $5
dtebbe - $50
Touchdown Kansas City !!! - $50
Deberg_1990 - $10
Fire Me Boy! - $20
bevischief - $25
SuperChief - $10
Chiefpote - $20
ptlyon - $25
Sean the Mayor - $25
jackkked - $25
Rockymntchief - $25
doomy3 - $50
ibleedredandyellow.com - $10
1adam1238 - $20
DaFace "Lord Captain Fuzzypants" - $25
COchief - $20.01
the Talking Can - $20
KCFalcon59 - $25
AZORChiefFan - $15
spanky52 - $25
ottawa_chiefs_fan - $20
RockChalk - $40
RaiderHater314 - $25
Marcellus - $25
Molitoth - $25
noa - $30
KCinNY - $20
chief103182 - $50
Inmem58 - $20
redhotgto - $20
Wyatt Earp - $20
headsnap - $25
NJChiefsFan - $10
Big Chief Homer - $10
JoeyChuckles - $22
PStokely - $1
farmerchief - $25
Josh & Katie in Salina (twitter) - $20
gblowfish - $10
Iowanian - $17.76
kaplin42 - $20.00
mugalug - $17.76
Scorp - $30
KCtotheSB - $20
Glorydayz - $20
prhom - $20
Nightfyre - $125
Bump - $4.20
kysirsoze - $25
CosmicPal - $20
Groves - $11
EdmontonChiefsFan - $100
Smed1065 - $20.12
petegz28 - $25
notorious - $20
'Nut - $25
K.C. Adrenalin - $25
Jason Whitlock - $600
Johnny Vegas - $15.34
d3c0y55 - $20.00
DenverDanChiefsFan - $10
ComfortablyNumb - $50
LadyChiefFan - $20
edenx25 - $4.55
luv - $10
Shag - $19.93
J. Albrecht - $10.00
DaKCMan AP - $27.17
J.Accurso - $50.00
Bearcat - $100
P.Palaksha - $50
Buehler445 - $25
David W. - $10.58
chiefs=good - $15
BourbonMan - $25
Hugh Janus - $1,000
Wazu - $25
D.Pihl - $25
ILChief - $20
ckruger - 25
rkane - $35
Brokenhearted Bruce - $250
cantill - $20
aanorth - $50
chief103182 - $50
KC Dan - $50
Bugeater - $25
speak24.1 - $50
Anonymous X6 (mult contributors either from outside CP or specifically req the anon tag or possibly pledges that I have missed.) - $135.00PAID
Please get in contact with me if you believe you should be on this list but aren't.
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First Post - The Banner Is In The Air
I got in contact with a guy at an airline banner towing co.
Talked to the guy there and he is a Chiefs fan as well. He said that the cost to fly the banner at the game for an hour is normally $725 but he would drop it down to $625 because he is also a fan and believes in what we are doing.
The flight would run for an hour but all banner towing is stopped around the stadium at 11AM. He would run from 10-11 and fly around the stadium before kick off.
If you all are serious about doing something like this... then lets ****ing do it. I will chip in the first $100 to the cause meaning we need to raise another $525. If there is an outpouring of donations to the cause, we can perhaps fly the banner after the game as well.
We would need to have the money paid to him by Wed. in order to get this done.
I was thinking the message should be...
WE DESERVE BETTER! FIRE ***** - BENCH Casse
A bunch of people have stated they would chip in for such a thing. If you are interested, send me a PM and post in this thread with your pledge. If we get the funds together to get this done, I will send you a PM to paypal the money and I will make the purchase.
The result of all this work:
Here is the NBC interview I did and pics of the banner being put together.
For those donating... once we hit the magic number, I'll send you a PM with paypal details. Also, any donations above the magic number will go towards future flights over Arrowhead. Cost of additional flights would be $560.
The Banner Is In The Air - 10/17
I am happy to heed your suggestions BUT. I flat refuse to put out any message that is not in the spirit of what we are trying to accomplish. A lot of the suggestions that we have here are ridiculously over the top and are not helpful in the least. If anything, they are counter productive. Remember that there are a lot of eyes on us right now watching what we are doing and what we are saying. It is all well and good to let CP be what it is but there is a time and a place for that... and that is every thread but this one.
We need to be taken seriously and acting like immature asshats isn't going to do a damn thing to help us accomplish that.
Make sure that when you donate, you set it to personal > gift.
Phase 2 -
Marty Mac Ver 2.0 is doing fb and twitter SOC
W. (name withheld) is running youtube SOC and, of course, .gif master supreme.
The staff of chiefsplanet.com and some others are serving as general advisors.
We thought about flying a banner over Tampa but in the end, feel like it wouldn't do enough good. We are definitely going to fly another banner over Arrowhead but it will be on 10/28 against the Raiders. There are are few suggestions being tossed around. We have some time and I'll be making a poll to get ideas from CP. In the mean time, I wanted to give you an idea of what we have done so far donations and spending wise.
The cost of the banner was obvious... we all knew that was going to happen. We are also, unless anyone has any strong feelings against it, are going to spend $50 on ads on FB to drive attention to saveourchiefs.com.\
We have plenty of time to come up with the slogan for the next banner. There is one thing that must absolutely be on the banner and that is the saveourchiefs.com address that AustinChief provided us with. I am looking for suggestions, I know there are already 50k spread through this thread but I cannot go digging around for then. The only banner suggestions that will be considered are ones that end in saveourchiefs.com. The banner cannot exceed 42 characters, spaces not included.
I have asked a small group of people to help sort through banner ideas since there will be eleventybillion ideas thown out. We are going to narrow it down to our top X favorite ideas, then let CP vote on it.
To anyone reading this from outside of this board:
To Matt - I'm sorry man. I sincerely hope you are ok. I hated that a few people cheered when you were hurt. I believe that Winston vastly overstated the number of people involved but that doesn't change the fact that you DO work your ass off for this team and you did not deserve your injury nor for for anyone to take pleasure in brain trauma. That said, yesterday was more of the same. High throws leading to pics. Low throws forcing the receiver to go down for the ball when he had some open grass in front of him. When you were throwing and not handing the ball off anyhow. Even with all the hand offs you had a fumble to your name. Not to mention the 2 picks. One your fault, the other not so much.
To ***** - We said we wanted a QB change. What we got was a 10 man offense. We need someone to explain why the team is in the condition that it is in and make a commitment to the fan base. We NEED you to acknowledge that Cassel isn't going to lead this team to any championships that matter.
We know that Cassel was a "pro-bowler" in 2010. It was only because there were 2 injuries meaning that he wasn't even the first runner up. He was Ms. Congeniality. We know his TD to INT ratio that came on the back of the one of the weakest schedules we have ever seen.
That is in the past and he has not been able to replicate those results. He has done nothing these first 5 games to prove that anything is going to be different this season. In fact, he has regressed. You have to see this too.
The stands are empty. Craigslist is littered with ads for people selling their tickets at below face value. Think about this. People would rather lose money than come to the stadium, pay for parking, and $8.50 bottles of beer in the stadium. People have lost faith in this team. What do you intend to do about that? Say something real.
Hunt - We want to hear from you. We take no joy in bringing national attention to our plight. We feel disconnected and adrift. We have a GM that won't say anything, a HC punts on the opponent's 40 with 12 seconds left on 4th down in one game and played for a tie with 40 seconds left + a time out in another, lastly a QB that is being panned by the fans (not just us here at CP) as well as the media.
Another poster wrote something that makes a lot of sense.
Clark... talk to us. Let us know you care.
email us at email@example.com
To everyone else -
Quinn - Hope you get the start against Tampa. Loved what you did in relief duty. We wish you the best of luck.
The D was outstanding. I loved the Hali to Houston Alley-oop celebration. DJ acknowledged that you gave up the 1st down at the end of the game that let the Ravens kneel to win the game. Hands down the most life I have seen in the D this season. You were great and you acted like it. I'm sorry the offensive play calling did not complement your work.
ST - you lit it up. Love it.
JC. We love you man. I hope they don't break you by calling your name too many times.
Bowe. They need to pay you. If anything, just for all the changes you have had to deal with since you were brought in.
O-Line/TE blocking was outstanding. Lilja, thanks for stepping into the C role and doing really well. I heard you say that you shorted the ball... I've watched it and I don't think so. But I get it. Protecting your QB.
Daboll - The play calling. WTF? We said we wanted a QB...not for you to hand off every single play. Great work adjusting to Baltimore zoning in on the run in the second half.
We, the donators and supporters of this banner, have been accused of being fair weather fans. Far from it. We are passionate fans who live and die with this team on Sunday. If we were fair weather fans, we would have found something else to do a long time ago. Instead, we have gone hoarse by the second quarter and not been able to speak right the next day. We have painted our faces and worn costumes, even formed charitable organizations, and the Superfans. We have made life long friends and are as dedicated a Chiefs fan as anyone else. We haven't given up the team. We are tired of losing. We are tired of not being competitive. Hell, people are leaving games by halftime. Arrowhead is a shell of what it used to be.
We who have been loyal for so long deserve better than what we have received. 19 years and no playoff wins. I don't want to hear about AFCW titles either. They mean nothing when they are immediately followed by a beating by the Ravens where we lose 30-7. A game where our QB throws for 70 yards and 3 interceptions. We have had 1 appearance in the AFC championship game since 1970 (1993)... and we lost. In 1984, the AFC Champ trophy was named "The Lamar Hunt Trophy". How sad it it that we have never once held the trophy that bears our founders name?
Do you remember going to games in the late 90's and early 00's? Remember feeling the rumble of the crowd in your chest? High fiving and hugging complete strangers? Being unable to talk to the person next to you on defensive 3rd downs? I hope that one day soon we get back to that. I would love to hear the fans cheer from start to finish again. I want 120 decibels of madness because there is not a single person that believes we can possibly lose the game. Every game is a game that you KNOW we are going to win. This culture of loosing needs to change.
10/17 - 11/9
Make sure that when you donate, you set it to personal > gift.
don't forget to follow us on Twitter - @saveourchiefs
and on facebook - Save Our Chiefs (also www.saveourchiefs.com)
We need your help to get the word out though. Tell your friends and family, share it on your twitter of FB feed. Get the word out that the fans are organizing!
pr_capone: Donations - Paypal / Physical Media / Media Contact
Marty: FB / Twitter / Media Contact
GoChiefs: (Cassel's Reckoning) - Youtube / Research / Film
Weather permitting, we will be flying two planes over Arrowhead on 10/28 when the Chiefs play the Raiders.
The first banner will fly a message suggested by DRU:
The other banner will fly a message to promote the blackout:
So, we are asking that fans attending the game begin to print out a .pdf file. It is intended to be double sided but do as you wish. These can and should be used for the remainder of the season or until ***** is fired.
The file can be found here:
If you are willing, we ask that you print out a few extra copies and take them with you to the game. If you see anyone out in the parking lot that is enjoying the banners or echoing our sentiments, give them one of the extra print outs so they can join in the movement. Please be careful if you approach others sharing what we are attempting to accomplish. If you have ever tailgated at Arrowhead, you know that there is no lacking for beer or spirits and not everyone will be in full control of themselves.
11/9 - Blackout
Marty on 610AM on 11/9
Make sure that when you donate, you set it to personal > gift.
pr_capone: Donations - Paypal / Physical Media / Media Contact
Marty: FB / Twitter / Media Contact
GoChiefs: (Cassel's Reckoning) - Youtube / Research / Film
We will be flying a banner on 11/16 "Black Friday" before the Blackout game all around KC. The pilot will fly the already made "RESTORE HOPE - FIRE ***** - SAVEOURCHIEFS.COM" banner over KC highways and densely populated residential areas during rush hour traffic. The thought behind this is that our banner will become water cooler talk at work and drive traffic to saveourchiefs.com right before the game for max exposure.
They will fly for 2 hours and will cost $900. We will also request that they buzz 610 & 810 to try and get some radio play as well.
The new Fire ***** flyer/sign:
Blackout - Raiders
Personal photo taken with 2:51 left on the clock in the 1st quarter
There is a lot of black there. You all deserve a pat on the back. Your donations and support of this banner thing lead to this. CP is awesome.
Make sure that when you donate, you set it to personal > gift.
pr_capone: Paypal / FB / Media Contact
Marty: FB / Twitter / Media Contact
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The Blackout... Continues.
I never thought, not for a moment that I would see so much black at Arrowhead. I am sincerely touched. I knew that people would turn out to the blackout, the question was always how many. The number exceeded my expectations by a long shot. It was a beautiful sight and there was an overwhelming response from people that we spoke with at the stadium as well as online. So much so that it is going to continue through the end of the season.
Link to the FIRE ***** flyer w/updated stats:
People outside are talking about you. Some have taken note that CP isn't always kind. Guilty. This is a forum that openly mocked a guy that got a really elaborate Chiefs tattoo on his chest. His one and only thread ever. So epic that is now resides in our Hall of Classics... yet he still posts here and talks football. Almost everyone here has taken some form of abuse for their stance at some point or another. People disagree with varied amounts of passion. There is a certain comfort level here and it is up to the new user to adjust to it... not the other way around.
Oh well.
Speaking of the forum... Mr. Dave Lane showed up to hand out flyers. He drove all the way to the game, didn't attend the game, was a flyer handing out machine and almost got arrested for his troubles. That is a true fan there. Show that man some green rep please.
A quick update on financials... had a few donations come in which has left us with a paypal balance of $1271.63 meaning we can fly the next two games for sure. From there we have some more time to gather funds before the Colts game. For more details go to the Donations section. Sports Nutz is still totaling their numbers. I hope to update this shortly.
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Any chance of wearing a cassel jersey during the interview?
Maybe even have the back say Casshole, and halfway through find a reason to show the back of the jersey.
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One idea I really like is changing the banner each week. If casshole gets benched this week, can we remove the bench cassel part and still get the discounted rate for the next game?
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Just sent off this ridiculously verbose email to Jim Rome.
The Monday following the Chiefs blowout by division rival San Diego Charger, I posted a thread on a Chiefs message board (link at bottom of email). I had priced the cost of flying a banner before the Ravens @ Chiefs over Arrowhead and found it to be relatively inexpensive. The company who is flying the banner is the same one who flew the banner over the MLB All-Star game calling for David Glass to sell the Royals. They are also the same company who flew in Arkansas calling for Houston Nutt to be fired. The guy I spoke with is also a Chiefs fan and was so in favor of our sign that he gave us a hefty discount to help our cause.
In about 48 hours we raised $1200, from about 70 different contributors, which is more than enough to fly the banner which likely means we will be taking further steps to continue voicing our displeasure over the state of this team. Simply put, Matt Cassel does not have what it takes to be a starting NFL QB. Many of his throws are erratic, they are either high or behind the receiver… and on occasion they are both. He makes poor decisions which cause his offensive line to look far worse that what they really are. He is quick to find the check down and often throws the ball well short of the 1st down marker and prays that his receiver can somehow find a way to get the 1st down. To paraphrase Dennis Green, he is who we thought he was. A QB that had not started a meaningful game since his last HS start until he was forced to fill in for Brady when Bernard Pollard, in an odd coincidence a KC Chief at the time, went low and broke Tom Brady for a season. He is an 8 year NFL veteran who carries himself on the field the way you would expect a rookie to do so.
As for Pioli, the GM of the Chiefs. The only players on the current Chiefs roster worth a damn are ones left over from the Carl Peterson era, save for Berry (S) and Houston (LB). His first round picks though not quite busts have not, for the most part, lived up to their draft position. In fact… our defense, powered by an all 1st round pick D-Line, has allowed the second most points in the NFL. A whopping 34 points per game. Hell, we have yet to hold the lead at any point during any of our first 4 games. His devotion to his hand-picked QB is mind boggling. Yes, there were rumors that the Chiefs went after Manning in the offseason but what does it say about the state of the team and the people who manage it when one of the best QBs to have ever played the game would not even take his phone call?
Arrowhead stadium was once lauded as the loudest stadium in the NFL. We have been reduced to half empty stands, early exits, and a crowd with the cheering power of the parents section in a pee-wee football game. No more. We the fans will use that voice that made offenses false start, opposing QBs call time outs because they could not communicate, and caused Ryan Leaf to have an epic meltdown. We will use this voice to say that we are sick and tired of being taken for granted. We are tired of seeing other teams claim the trophy that bears our founder's name.
Hear us Rome… help us send a message to the ownership, the front office, and the fan base. We deserve better.
A 20 year fan of this team and current (for the past 2 seasons… will he make it to 3?) season ticket holder who makes an 8 hour drive round trip to home games along with 70 equally pissed off Chiefs fans.
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-edit proof read and found my mistake. Not Jim Mora but Dennis Green. Caught it before I sent it.
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Avera Marshall President and CEO Mary Maertens presented council members with a biannual report on the hospital and the Avera Marshall Medical Group in the region. Maertens said making innovations in care will continue to be an important goal for Avera Marshall, as would meeting community needs for services like mental health care, specialist providers and services for aging populations.
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Revenues at have also grown at Avera Marshall in the past six years, Maertens said. Net patient revenues in the 2012 fiscal year were at more than $57 million, up from about $23 million in 2006, she said.
Maertens said the announcement that Avera Marshall plans to build a cancer institute has received a lot of positive feedback, especially from members of the public.
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Other business at Tuesday's meeting included the approval of a bid for the next section of tree removal along Marshall's flood protection levees. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has said the city must remove trees and vegetation from the levee system, as their roots could weaken the structure and cause it to fail.
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by Kent Annan
The U.S. military, which fades to
the back of civilian consciousness during times of sustained peace,
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weeks immediately following the attacks on the World Trade Center and
the Pentagon, religion and grief filled the national airwaves. Military
chaplains like Margaret Kibben (Class of 1986) and James Boelens (Class
of 1979) ministered to those affected at the Pentagon, while colleagues
like Joanne Martindale (Class of 1988) and Rudolph Daniels Sr. (Class of
1977) cared for those in New York City. Parish ministers around the
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for pastoral care surged.
Military chaplains on Princeton's
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Jeff Zust (army; second from right). Meanwhile future chaplains
studying for M.Div.s include Kelly Hansen (army; second from left) and
Mark Torres (army; far right).
Then the headlines shifted to the bombing of Afghanistan and the hunt for bin
Laden and company. Most ministers returned to relatively normal daily routines,
including military chaplains. Yet the routines of military chaplains continued
to span these two contrasting worlds of dropping bombs and providing religious
care. Their duties, in addition to pastoral care, also include the possibility
of being deployed around the globe, the discipline of five-mile runs with their
congregants, the willingness to put themselves in mortal danger on command, and
the tension of answering to two distinct lines of authority: the U.S. military
chain of command and God.
The history of the military chaplaincy in America stretches back to before the
Declaration of Independence: on July 29, 1775, the Continental Congress
authorized the presence of and pay for military chaplains. Since then military
chaplains have served many roles, but their key constitutional role is to secure
for members of the armed services the right to the free exercise of religion, as
guaranteed in the first amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Another key role, of course, is theological. The U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force include Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Orthodox, and Muslim chaplains; there are unfilled slots for Hindu and Buddhist chaplains. (All marines are combatants, and chaplains, under the Geneva Convention, are noncombatants and don't carry guns—so navy chaplains serve the Marine Corps. Navy chaplains also provide ministry to the Coast Guard.) Princeton Seminary has educated hundreds of the armed forces' Protestant, and especially its Presbyterian, chaplains.
This history extends back to Princeton's earliest days
Mark Torres, an M.Div. middler, hopes to be the next to join the distinguished ranks of Princeton alums who have ministered to the men and women of the armed forces. After researching the three branches, Torres decided to enter the army because "they're more my style. I like getting down and dirty, in the trenches, on the obstacle course. I like the physical challenge that's there—and the whole challenge of transforming yourself into a soldier."
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Torres, a California native, tried to join the marines when he was 18. They wouldn't take him because he had asthma. Later he became more serious about his faith and so decided, "Forget the military, I'm just going to follow Jesus Christ." His face lights up when he talks about how the two paths are now converging. "So I'm going army because I want to minister to those people," he says. "I believe in the military, in the men and women in uniform. I believe in serving those who have been given a calling to sacrifice their lives in a time of war." Torres can hardly wait to go active duty after he finishes seminary and two years of parish ministry (a military requirement).
But he's also realistic, which means he's a bit scared—of being geographically separated from his family; of dying; of leaving his wife, Jody, alone; and, finally, of the fact that "war is bad. I don't want to be in that ugliness." Though the combat zone is far from most chaplains these days, a vivid reminder that this is a different sort of ministry to a different sort of congregation comes in the army's
Unit Ministry Team Handbook (UMT Handbook), a reference book for chaplains and chaplain assistants. The book, which Torres will soon study, includes instructions like "Utilize the 'zigzag' technique to move from cover to cover" and "Remember: A moving target is more difficult to hit than a stationary target."
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