Official parliamentary authority free from jargon and complex protocol. Ideal for decision-making meetings of any size, unions, churches, condominiums, schools ...

A more democratic way of conducting meetings! For a century, people have struggled with complex rules of order for running meetings, but today there is a simpler, more effective way.

This book has a mission: to raise the standard of democracy in meetings wherever it is used. It does this with a new parliamentary guide so easy to use that all can participate equally. What a difference when there is a level playing field, no one is intimidated, no one has a special advantage, and there is no complex table of rules to study!

A pair of innovative teachers, with help from executives and parliamentarians, refined this book through 7 editions until each rule was crystal clear and not a single one was missing. Today, thousands are in use worldwide helping people make democracy work in a very practical way.

Visit us online at www.democratic-rules.com Books may be purchased for $8.95 from local or internet bookstores. For your complimentary copy [or questions or orders] send an email to francis@democratic-rules.com

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Mr. Dickey: Secretary to Mary Baker Eddy with A Chestnut Hill Album

On a snowy day one hundred years ago Adam Dickey walked up the driveway to the Chestnut Hill estate near Boston to begin his service as secretary to Mary Baker Eddy, the leader of the Christian Science movement. As he went about his daily life during the next three years at Chestnut Hill Dickey kept journal notes of conversations and spiritual lessons with Mrs. Eddy as well as routine happenings and some difficulties in “the household.” He also recorded Mrs. Eddy’s handling of business affairs of the Christian Science movement which was by now a world-wide phenomenon.

These recently recovered journal notes along with Dickey’s personal letters home and photos of his life at Chestnut Hill, over 125 pages of invaluable historical documents reproduced exactly and transcribed, are included for the first time in a new edition of the popular book Mr. Dickey: Secretary to Mary Baker Eddy.

Mr. Dickey: Secretary to Mary Baker Eddy [Second Edition] with A Chestnut Hill Album contains:

• Dickey’s biography as Part I of the book
• A Chestnut Hill Album Part II [replacing Dickey’s Memoirs of Mary Baker Eddy]. It includes–
• Dickey’s selective detail notes recording Mrs. Eddy’s morning meditations with her household over a period of two years reproduced from the original transcriptions
• Photos of the household “family” and the mansion through several seasons as taken by Dickey and his wife Lillian, also part of the household.
• Commentary on the journal entries by Baxter and Christian Science historian Keith McNeil, who owns the collection and has made it available to the public through this book.

To read this Chestnut Hill album is to step inside a world-famous home and personally experience the day-today life of the strong, decisive and deeply spiritual leader of Christian Science movement and her “family” in her last, challenging years. The spiritual lessons and new information in these entries is inspiring and invaluable.
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ISBN: 978-0 9787167-7-6
To order send check ($30 plus $5 shipping and handling) to Hawthorne Publishing 15601 Oak Road, Carmel, IN 46033 (317-867-5183) or order through the web site: www.hawthornepub.com using your credit card via Paypal.Delivery in mid-August.

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"Christian Science: Its Encounter with Lesbian/Gay America"
by Bruce Stores

Price: $20.95
Format: Paperback
Pages: 274
ISBN: 0-595-32620-X
Published: Sep-2004
Other Formats: Hard Cover [$30.95] | Adobe eBook [$6.00]

Purchase from iUniverse.com [click here]

Author Bruce Stores has shed light on a hitherto unknown chapter in the annals of Christian Science. This is the story of lesbian/gay believers. Herein is their pursuit for respect and dignity in the Church of Christ, Scientist. The narrative traces stormy encounters from the days of near total rejection up to the friendlier atmosphere in the 21st century. This is a story of perseverance, hope, and especially healing.

"Bruce Stores has done a superb job of pulling this story together, ferreting out little known aspects of it and placing it all in the context of America's unfolding political and religious life. What comes through. . . is that in spite of all the homophobia, church politics, hopes dashed and partially re-assembled, Christian Science still blazes bright for those who want it." — White Crane Journal

Just republished, "BLISS KNAPP CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST"

In this landmark biography, Dr. C. Theodore Houpt presents a vivid picture of Bliss Knapp and his complete commitment to the Cause of Christian Science. Knapp's life provides a fascinating view into the early days of Christian Science, the lives of many early workers for the Cause, and the metaphysical and logistical challenges faced by Christian Science lecturers in the early twentieth century. This new and slightly revised edition contains many photographs not previously published. $29.95

Published by Wingaway Press www.wingaway.org
Available throughThe Principia Bookstore. Call 800.325.2420 to order.

Surviving, The Saga of a Pioneer Family
by Hazel Netherton

A novel of historical fiction by Christian Scientist, Hazel Netherton. The book tells the story of two generations of a post-Civil War pioneer family, their neighbors and loves, surviving life's challenges as America and the original settlement in northern Michigan changes and grows. $23.95, paperback

This is Hazel Netherton's second novel. She has also been published in periodicals including the Christian Science periodicals.

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