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Nature of List
Like Scientology today the role the Church of Christ, Scientist played in certain fields, especially entertainment and politics, at one time caused a good deal of attention. Enough so that Bonnie Burke of Brooklyn wrote an article titled "Watergate and Christian Science" in "The Mail." This list can not truly give a sense of what percentage Christian Scientists had in various fields, an actual study of these fields giving percentages would be needed for that, but it can give a small sense of the validity or invalidity of the concept. Or simply be a source for those who wondered who was and wasn't Christian Scientist in history. That said you must cite a credible source to justify any addition.
The List
Politics
- Nancy Witcher Astor See Sykes's Nancy the life of Lady Astor (Academy Chicago, 1984), and her own letters in Nancy Astor’s Canadian Correspondence, 1912-1962
- Ralph Owen Brewster Political Graveyard
- Robert W. Goodlatte USA Today
- H.R. Haldeman Washington Post
- Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian - Time Magazine obituary
- Egil Krogh The Atlantic Online
- Scott McCallum Milwaukee Sentinel
- Christopher Shays Peace Corps site
- Lamar Smith Washington Post
- John D. Works PG
Entertainment and the Arts
- James Butt - "A dedicated Christian Scientist, his sacred solos for high voice and organ are now performed in many churches."
- Carol Channing-, but in the interview she does state "Well, I believe in it. But at 6:30 at night if I have sprained a toe or if broke a rib or if I have laryngitis, I used to run to the doctor, Bill Cayhand, and he'd used to fix me."
- Joseph Cornell Considered Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures to be "the most important book to him outside the Bible" and ot may have influenced some of his art.
- Doris Day BBC
- Colleen Dewhurst-Mentioned in her unfinished autobiography.
- Joyce Grenfell - Niece of Nancy Astor, also wrote music.
- Kay Kyser - A Christian Science practitioner who ran the tv-film department of the church in Boston and was given an honorary title by the faith.
- Mina Loy-"She was a key figure in the group that formed around Others magazine, which also included Man Ray, William Carlos Williams and Marianne Moore. She also became a Christian Scientist at this time."(Wiki article)
- Michael Nesmith
- Ginger Rogers - "Lived for much of her life with her mother, Lela Owens McMath Rogers (1891–1977), a Christian Scientist (like Ginger)" Wiki article, there's also this
- Jean Stapleton"I follow the teachings of the bible and practice as a Christian Scientist. Oops! I really don’t want to go there."
- Anna May Wong (Also Taoist, perhaps although that is disputed.)
- Alan Young-He founded a broadcast division for the Christian Science church.