A gift from James F. Lord, it was later dynamited in 1962 by order of the church's board of directors.

Officers elected include the general overseer, the assistant general overseers, the secretary general, and the directors of the church's missionary and Christian education ministries.

On July 11, 2010, he announced that he was retiring as principal pastor of the Crystal Cathedral and would become chairman of the church's board of directors.

In 1998, amid accusations of sexual impropriety, Garner Ted Armstrong was removed from office by the church's board of directors.

The Bible and Eddy's textbook on Christian healing, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, are together the church's key doctrinal sources and have been ordained as the church's " dual impersonal pastor ".

Christian Science practitioners are listed in the Christian Science Journal, with the permission of the church's Board of Directors, their only form of official recognition by the church and among the Christian Science laity.

Marriage is not a sacrament of the Christian Science church, but the church's by-laws require a legal, religious ceremony for marriage: " If a Christian Scientist is to be married, the ceremony shall be performed by a clergyman who is legally authorized.

Many Christian Scientists thought the book violated the church's by-laws, and the editors of the church's religious periodicals and several other church employees resigned in protest.

* Christian Science Mark Twain's famous, vitriolic 1907 polemic mocking Mary Baker Eddy, her writings, and the church's financial arrangements.

Though their development was gradual, we can date the full-blown appearance and general ecclesiastical ( as opposed to simply popular or local ) acceptance of Christian images as venerated and miracle-working objects to the 6th century, when, as Hans Belting writes, " we first hear of the church's use of religious images.

Though the religion quickly gained a large following of Christian seekers, in the 1830s, many American Christians came to view the church's early doctrines and practices as politically and culturally subversive, as well as doctrinally heretical, abominable, and condemnable.

In order to meet Norman's hospital bills, in November 2002 Solid Rock Records began releasing the Essential Series on CD-R, a set of seven Norman albums, with 142 songs ( including 16 previously unreleased songs ), which comprised: Instigator, which included rough mix versions of two previously unreleased songs, " Butterfly " and " Kulderachna ", both removed from 1973's So Long Ago the Garden ; Agitator, which included three unreleased bonus tracks, " Sweet Silver Angels ", " God, Part 2 ", and " People In My Past "; Liberator, which included songs that were aimed at " liberating Christians who felt trapped inside the church and also providing a cultural doorway to allow those who felt dismissed and isolated by Christianity to find their way into fellowship with Christ regardless of the church's response toward them "; Collaborator, which featured songs representing " the combined efforts of Charles and Larry from lyrics and melodies to arrangements and production ", including three unreleased songs: " Perfect World ", " Don't Wanna Be Like You ", and " Jesus Is God ", recorded about 2000 ; Emancipator, included two unreleased songs of Norman singing with Randy Stonehill: a Christian version of the folk song " He Was a Friend of Mine ", which had been popularized by The Byrds and Bob Dylan, which was re-titled " He is a Friend of Mine ", and " I Love You ", the song Stonehill and Norman co-wrote in 1971 for Stonehill's Born Twice album ; Infiltrator, which sees love as " the most powerful infiltrator in the world ", is a collection of Norman's love songs, and includes two new releases: a cover of David Noble's " Waves of Grace ", and " Stranger, Won't You Change "; and Survivor, included the full 8-minute version of " Dark Passage ", an unreleased third verse of " Baby Out of Wedlock ", and " One Star Remains ", which is Judee Sill's " My Man On Love " from her 1971 eponymous debut album.

Eddy authorized these students to list themselves as Christian Science Practitioners in the church's periodical, The Christian Science Journal.

She also founded the Christian Science Journal in 1883, a monthly magazine aimed at the church's members and, in 1898, the Christian Science Sentinel, a weekly religious periodical written for a more general audience, and the Herald of Christian Science, a religious magazine with editions in many languages.

Garner Ted also spoke of greatly expanding the church's media ministry on the model of the Church of Christ, Scientist with its widely read Christian Science Monitor.

Most of the decorative elements have Christian symbolism, in reference to the church's Episcopalian roots, but the cathedral is filled with memorials to persons or events of national significance: statues of Washington and Lincoln, state seals embedded in the marble floor of the narthex, state flags that hang along the nave, stained glass commemorating events like the Lewis and Clark expedition and the raising of the American flag at Iwo Jima.

Expecting God's Kingdom to establish rule on earth and for the saints to be raised to heaven in 1918, Rutherford wrote in January of that year: " The Christian looks for the year to bring the full consummation of the church's hopes.

As a " first-day " body of Adventist Christians established by The Advent Christian General Conference in 1860, the church's beliefs include " conditional immortality " and a form of " soul sleep ".

The Christian Scholars Group on Christian-Jewish Relations is a group of 22 Christian scholars, theologians, historians and clergy from six Christian Protestant denominations and the Roman Catholic Church, which works to " develop more adequate Christian theologies of the church's relationship to Judaism and the Jewish people.

Historian and journalist Robert Peel ( 1909-1992 ) was a significant ecumenical figure in Christian Science, best known for writing his church's definitive three-volume authorized biography of its founder, Mary Baker Eddy.

Unity operates several programs, including a prayer program called Silent Unity, the Unity Society of Practical Christianity, Unity School of Christianity, Unity Institute, the Office of Prayer Research, the Association of Unity Churches, and Unity House, the church's publishing arm.

" Young again addressed the need to establish local Relief Society units at the church's 1868 April conference, stating: Now, Bishops, you have smart women for wives, many of you.

In 1837, dissension arose in Kirtland over the failure of the church's Kirtland Safety Society bank.

The stake auxiliaries correspond to the ward-level auxiliaries, and include the Stake Relief Society ( the church's women's organization ), the Stake Primary ( for children under 12 years of age ), the Stake Young Men and Young Women, and the Stake Sunday School organizations.

Because of the church's focus on families, the Correlation Committee recommended a three-hour block of meetings on Sundays that would include a sacrament meeting, Sunday School, priesthood meetings, Relief Society and children's classes.

In 1837, problems at the church's headquarters in Kirtland, Ohio, centering around the Kirtland Safety Society bank, led to schism.

Its approach was based on the Congregational church's role in the London Missionary Society ( LMS ), whose fundamental principle was to develop a wholly non-denominational exemplar.

Some of the funds which had been raised for the prosecution were later used by the Society to repair the cap of the church's tower.

This support is currently expressed by the church's financial support of the Church Mission Society, South American Missionary Society, the Bible Society,

Despite his dedication to the church's religious message, Boynton broke with Joseph Smith, Jr. and Sidney Rigdon during the Kirtland Safety Society banking controversy.

Upon the church's rebuilding and re-dedication, the Society of Jesus strengthened their ties to this parish by founding the school, which was encouraged by the Dominicans at St. Vincent Ferrer ( New York City ) and the Paulist Fathers at St. Paul the Apostle ( New York City ).

The siege lasted for 39 days and nine militants and the church's bellringer were killed.

This group took an extreme view that argued that all papal teachings were infallible and that papal infallibility was the foundation of the church's infallibility.

Some speculated that Ashcroft felt reporters were photographing him with the female statue in the background to make fun of his church's opposition to pornography.

In the fourth century AD, the Bishop Acacius of Amida, touched by the plight of Persian prisoners captured in a recent war with the Roman Empire — who were held in his town under appalling conditions and destined for a life of slavery, took the initiative of ransoming them, by selling his church's precious gold and silver vessels, and letting them return to their country.

Several Czechs were killed, and the remainder hid in the church's crypt.

Supporters of the assassins who were killed in the wake of these events included the church's leader, Bishop Gorazd, who is now revered as a martyr of the Orthodox Church.

Ironically, Mission Santa Cruz ( though ultimately ignored by the marauders ) was ignominiously sacked and vandalized by local residents who were entrusted with securing the church's valuables.

After a 1925 fire destroyed the 1828 mission structure, including the surrounding wall, the church's parochial functions were transferred to St. Clare Parish Church, on Lexington Street west of the campus.

Sexual acts played a fundamental role in the church's sacred rites, which were performed by Mary Ellen Tracy herself in her assumed role of High Priestess.

Their imperial crowns were afterwards frequently donated to the church and are kept in the church's treasury — medieval crowns and those of more recent monarchs-although other monarchs have given their crowns and other regalia to various other churches.

The Jesuits were seen as church's soldiers, and, in the view of some, given free rein to use whatever methods as outlined in the forged anti-Catholic document Monita Secreta, also known as the " Secret Instructions of the Jesuits " published ( 1612 and 1614 ) in Kraków, and were also accused of using casuistry to obtain justifications for the unjustifiable in their work ( See: formulary controversy ; Blaise Pascals ' Lettres Provinciales ).

Until the early twentieth century, baptismal applicants were required to promise to follow the church's teachings regarding " being defenseless.

These changes in the church's practices and beliefs were very controversial, leading to the formation of breakaway churches such as the Remnant Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints ; in 1994, former church historian Richard P. Howard estimated that 25, 000 members had left to join such groups.

The current vision and mission statements of the Community of Christ were initially adopted in 1996 by the leading quorums of the church's leadership and reflect the peace and justice centered ministries of the denomination.

In the church's early days each of the various guilds had their own organ but the guilds were suppressed in 1547 and by 1589 all existing organs in the church had been disposed of.

In late 2006, a stone church was taken down, for unknown reasons, that was built circa 1830 and served the community until 1980 when the church's contents were sold off.

The barrister Gaspar de Arredondo y Pichardo wrote, " 40 children had their throats cut at the Moca's church, and the bodies found at the presbytery, which is the space that encircles the church's altar ..." This event was one of several documented accounts of acts perpetrated against the Dominicans by General Christophe, under the orders of Dessalines ; they were retreating from the Spanish-ruled side of the island after their failed invasion attempt of 1805.

The church's bells were once housed in a detached campanile.

The church's Advisory Council of Elders, acting on a clause in church by-laws added in 1981, was to select a successor after his death, yet Armstrong reportedly worried about the ramifications if certain individuals, such as his son Garner Ted or evangelist Roderick Meredith were selected.

During the life of Brigham Young, elements of the Adam – God doctrine were taught in LDS church meetings, sung in church hymns, and featured as part of the church's Endowment ceremony.

In 1572 the acts of 1560 were finally approved by the young James VI, but the Concordat of Leith also allowed the crown to appoint bishops with the church's approval.

Other religious figures became involved in the controversy surrounding the film, including Francis J. Spellman, the Catholic Archbishop of New York, who called it " sinful " and forbade Catholics in the archdiocese to see the film and James A. Pike of the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York, who countered Spellman by pointing out that there was more " sensuality " in the film The Ten Commandments than there was in Baby Doll, and argued that " the church's duty is not to prevent adults from having the experience of this picture, but to give them a wholesome basis for interpretation and serious answers to questions that were asked with seriousness.

At this stage, the objections of the Confessing Church were not motivated by moral outrage over antisemitism, as much as by the regime's interference in matters that were wholly within the church's province.