Dedication: Building the Branches of Mary Baker Eddy’s Church (with a focus on Seattle)
by Cindy Peyser Safronoff

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Description: Cindy Peyser Safronoff will share highlights from her narrative nonfiction book “Dedication: Building the Seattle Branches of Mary Baker Eddy’s Church, A Centennial Story – Part 1: 1889 to1929,” including stories, insights, and examples of things early Christian Scientists did that might surprise this generation of Christian Scientists. Safronoff offers a rare inside look at early Christian Science branch churches with a focus on Seattle from four years of in-depth research using previously inaccessible primary sources. Safronoff has been working to document Christian Science branch church history, including the many influential people from diverse backgrounds who founded and grew the churches, and especially the joint church activities that wove the movement together. Far from mere nostalgia for a bygone era, Safronoff’s interest in history is to inspire ideas for going forward. She will touch on themes of rebirth, unity, charity, cooperation, and overcoming challenges of every kind, and include some of her research on how Christian Scientists responded to the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic.

Cindy Peyser Safronoff is an independent scholar, author, and podcaster. Her nonfiction narrative book “Dedication: Building the Seattle Branches of Mary Baker Eddy’s Church, A Centennial Story – Part 1: 1889 to 1929” won an “Enduring Light” gold metal in “Christian Thought” in the Illumination Book Awards for Christian books. The audio version of the book, her podcast “Dedication: A Centennial Story,” has more than 7000 downloads, with listeners in almost every US state and more than 44 countries. Her first book, “Crossing Swords: Mary Baker Eddy vs. Victoria Claflin Woodhull and the Battle for the Soul of Marriage” won ten book awards and was featured in the Sunday Boston Globe. Safronoff is a third-generation Christian Scientist and a fourth-generation Seattle resident.

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