Lecturer to examine works of Christian Scientist’s founder
by Shannon Harrison, managing editor

    In honor of Women’s History Month, NE Campus will present From Adam’s Rib to Women’s Lib Thursday, March 22.

    Marian English, member of the board of lectureship, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, will talk to students and faculty about the life of Mary Baker Eddy, the religion’s founder, at 11:15 a.m. in the Student Center’s Center Corner.

    English’s lecture will explain how Eddy embodied the spirit of the women’s movement as an author, reformer, healer and human rights activist.

    Eddy conquered problems that many women face today. She was a widow, a single parent and a lone woman in a society that restricted women’s opportunities.

    She overcame obstacles facing women of her time to become an outstanding business woman and spiritual healer, founded a religious movement and established an international daily newspaper, The Christian Science Monitor.

    English will discuss how Eddy overcame the oppression of women and also will help students realize how they can break boundaries today.

    Eddy was recognized in 1999 by the National Foundation for Women Legislators “for her contribution to fair and balanced journalism.”

    PBS’s Religion and Ethics Newsweekly in 1998 named her one of the 25 most significant religious figures for Americans in the 20th century.

    Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, one of her books published in 1875, sold 200,000 copies last year.

    Her book Mind/Body/Spirituality is on the recommended reading list of Harvard Medical School conferences.

    Eddy was named to the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 1995 for making “an indelible contribution to society, religion and journalism.”
    A graduate of the University of Nebraska, English is a practitioner and teacher of spiritual ideas found in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

    English also writes for the Publishing Society of the First Church of Christ, Scientist.

    For more information, contact Lou Davenport in NE Campus student activities at 817-515-6688.