I was born a Christian Scientist in 1942 in Fort Worth, Texas. Both parents were attending regularly and had no other church receiving their devotion. Mom was raised a Lutheran, as would be expected since both her parents and stepfather were Danish, but she loved my dad enough to go to the church he wished (more…)

How is your life different now in following biblical Christianity, from what it was before in following Mary Baker Eddy? What did you mean when writing in your book, “I can recognize the shortcomings of my former religion while still appreciating the good”? By what points of entry can a former Christian Scientist establish dialogue with a Christian Scientist who is beginning to question? Keying on Jesus’ example, how does one go about speaking the truth in love to Mrs. Eddy’s followers? What is your approach in praying for yourself and others who have come from Christian Science to the Cross, and in praying for those who still follow Christian Science? (more…)

(Author: Kate Jones) When Christianity is presented as a science, the life and sacrifice of Jesus Christ is diminished and pasteurized into something unrecognizable. I spent the first forty years of my life living under the false pretense that I was actually a Christian. I was not. (more…)

Adam, a young businessman not quite 30, raised as an evangelical Christian, thoughtful, well-read, and free-spirited, contacted me recently at the suggestion of a mutual friend. He was concerned about his grandmother, Carolyn, nearing 80, a lifelong Christian Scientist (more…)

(By John Andrews) I received Christian baptism on the eve of Easter 1993 at St. Gabriel’s Anglican Church in Denver, having resigned my lifelong membership in the Christian Science church several months before.

After I met Carl Gans in 1998, and we realized how similar our journeys from Mrs. Eddy’s teachings to the Cross had been, he suggested we co-author an open letter to Christian Scientists.

That was the origin of the Ananias statement, which circulated on paper for several years until this website was established about 2002. Along the way, David Petteys and Sonia Zawacki joined us as signers of the letter.

We’re now adding a blog to Ananias.org, for convenience in posting other written materials old and new, linking to relevant sites, and fostering discussion both among ourselves and with anyone who wishes to respond. (more…)