Christian Science is often inherited, and like many inheritances, it comes with family secrets. The religion encourages secrecy. Members of the Church tend to hide their illnesses from one another, even within families. My father has never once, in my… — Caroline Fraser Copy Share Image
I was afraid to admit feeling ill because even when I was 4 or 5, I knew that my father viewed sickness as a… — Caroline Fraser Copy Share Image
My father was a particularly zealous Christian Scientist, but young Christian Science children, who have little choice but to believe what their parents are… — Caroline Fraser Copy Share Image
“South Dakota’s new constitution forbade the appropriation of public money to provide relief.” — Caroline Fraser Copy Share Image
“His most remarkable gift, as Laura saw it, was a deep and profound contentment with what he had.” — Caroline Fraser Copy Share Image
“By 1867, there were only fifty Dakota left in Minnesota.67 That year, a baby girl was born just across the Mississippi, in a little… — Caroline Fraser Copy Share Image
“Three weird sisters in an antifeminist trifecta, they each celebrated in their books the strapping male as a hero, and exhibited a striking dissociation… — Caroline Fraser Copy Share Image
Between the fictional Laura of the books and the even more heavily fictionalized girl of the TV show, we've tended to lose sight of… — Caroline Fraser Copy Share Image
Christian Science has been enormously influential in our religious history, and the church is very powerful. It has won an extraordinary number of legal… — Caroline Fraser Copy Share Image
“One scholar has estimated that a third of Dakota homesteads were held by women a decade later.” — Caroline Fraser Copy Share Image
Nearly every Christian Scientist I have known has been involved with the Church from childhood and has a long family connection to it, going… — Caroline Fraser Copy Share Image
Christian Science has always appealed to the middle-classes and the upper middle classes. In part, this is because it requires a certain amount of… — Caroline Fraser Copy Share Image
