Mary Trammell, CSB

Being raised in a home where both my parents were Christian Science practitioners, and my father a teacher, was an incredible privilege. Spiritual healing was such a natural, joyful daily occurrence that I somehow always knew I wanted to be a Christian Science practitioner myself.

After growing up in Louisville, Kentucky, and Boston, I went to Smith College. My husband, Talbot, and I married soon after graduation, and raised our two children in Miami, where he practiced law. A Baptist when we met, he discovered Christian Science was what he’d always believed in—and joined The Mother Church and the branch church where I belonged.

As our son and daughter grew up, I completed my MA and PhD in English Literature at the University of Miami, writing my dissertation on the King James Bible. After 10 years of teaching, I resigned my position at Florida Atlantic University to give full time to the public practice of Christian Science.

Wonderful opportunities to serve the Cause of Christian Science followed—as lecturer, and after moving to Boston in the 1990’s, as Church Historian, as Editor in the department that publishes the Church periodicals, and as a member of the Christian Science Board of Directors. I’ve published a number of articles in the periodicals and co-authored a book, The Reforming Power of the Scriptures. And since 1991, I’ve had the unending adventure of teaching Christian Science to people who earnestly want to make a difference in the world—as Christian healers!