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A unique Seattle history showing Reverend Mary Baker Eddy's influence. Nonfiction narrative about the people who built some of Seattle's most iconic architectural landmarks. A 130-year journey, a true story of cooperation, innovation, and transformation, read by author Cindy Safronoff.
A church mortgage is finally paid off, and you might find yourself cheering for the board.
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A paid-off mortgage opens a window onto church preparations, women's leadership, and Seattle's religious history.
A church dedication opens into a compact study of how a Seattle congregation turned long endurance into permanence. Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist, spent nearly three decades raising money for its grand neoclassical downtown building, and in 1937 the retirement of its large…
A membership application opens onto Christian Science, Prohibition, and the uneasy afterlife of a bootlegging past.
Roy Olmsted's 1936 application to Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist, Seattle gives this episode its charge. What looks like a routine membership vote becomes a sharper question about how a church treats a public past that seems at odds with its stated values.
A 1935 Seattle tea frames Agnes Healy Anderson's route from social hostess to the donor behind Anderson Hall.
Cindy Safranoff uses Agnes Healy Anderson's 1935 tea for Eleanor Evans Thomason as a small doorway into a larger story: how Seattle society, personal trust, and Principia College's fundraising work intersected.
Miller Beach chaos, served breakfast-style.
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Dedication: A Centennial Story episode 18 follows Fourth Church of Christ Scientists Seattle as it retires a construction mortgage after nearly three decades and prepares its August 1, 1937 dedication.
Roy Olmsted, the Seattle bootlegger known as the King of the Northwest Rum Runners, tried again in 1936 to join Fourth Church of Christ Scientists Seattle after an earlier rejection.
["Agnes Healy Anderson's July 17, 1935 tea for 18-year-old Eleanor Evans Thomason turned into Seattle society news, and the Seattle Times called it one of the summer's most charming teas.", "The event doubled as publicity for Principia College, where Thomason had studied for two years, and the episode links that school to Mary Kimball Morgan's 1897 founding, her prayer-based philosophy, and Mary Baker Eddy's approval.", "Principia trustee Dr.
Seventh Church representatives found 19 people at Fort Lewis services, but not a single soldier.
Cindy Safranoff’s “Making History (1933)” follows Seattle Christian Science branches as they answered a Mother Church request for historical sketches, photographs, and archival records.
Five large presses ran 24 hours a day for two months to print 410,000 copies of the 640-page hymnal.
This episode recounts the challenges faced by Christian Science students at the University of Washington in finding meeting spaces during the early 20th century.
This episode details the efforts of Seattle's Christian Science churches to coordinate fundraising and dedication activities in 1930, including the introduction of radiocasting.
A nonfiction narrative about the people who built Seattle's Christian Science churches, focusing on a chapter about African American history in Christian Science.
This episode details the influence of George Foote Dunham's visit to Dannenhofer Glassworks on the art glass design for Fourth Church of Christ Scientist in Seattle.