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This talk will focus on universal healing precepts found in the Holy Bible, especially in Christ Jesus’ life and teachings, showing how they are available for anyone to understand and experience through the lens of Christian Science. The talk is free, open to the community, and hosted by Tenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Kansas City.

“At the heart of everything we deal with, love might be what life is all about,” says Hegarty. “I hope this talk shows how a bigger, truer sense of God as divine Love can bring more thoughtful, tender affection to our relationships, how it refines our search for love, helps us deal with a lack or loss of love, and explains the connection between it and physical healing in our lives.”

Sharing examples of healing from her own life and professional practice of Christian Science, Hegarty will explain why Christian Science is both Christian and scientific, meaning that people can prove its effectiveness for themselves, as fully described in the book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, written by the founder of the Christian Science movement, Mary Baker Eddy.

Hegarty will also touch on the life of Mary Baker Eddy, who came to understand, confirm, and teach what she felt was original Christian healing. Eddy herself said she was especially inspired by Jesus’ demand, “He that believes on me, the works that I do will he do also; and greater works than these will he do, because I go unto my Father” (found in the Gospel of John 14:12 in the Bible).

For over 150 years, people around the world have worked to follow Christ Jesus in this practice of Christianity and continue to do so today, experiencing healings of physical ills and personal difficulties.

Janet Hegarty has been a Christian Science practitioner for many years, helping people on a daily basis through this scientific approach to prayer. She travels from her home base in St. Louis, Missouri, to speak to audiences around the world as a member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship.

What Janet loves about Christian Science is the way it answers pressing questions that come to all of us. Questions like: Who am I? Why am I here? How can I find health and happiness? These questions were uppermost in her thought as she entered college. She studied music composition at Washington University in St. Louis. Then, she moved to Chicago, to earn a master’s degree in music. Around that time, she was introduced to Christian Science and began finding the answers to her questions about identity, purpose, and health, which made a huge difference in her life.

For the next several years, she composed and produced original music for theatre productions and film. Later, Janet and her husband, Jim, ran a music production company, producing music for radio, television, and other media.

Throughout this time, Janet continued to apply the spiritual ideas she was learning to every facet of life. Her growing understanding of the way Christian Science explains existence took the mystery out of living and removed much fear. This new light so changed her life that it stirred within her a desire to help others find spiritual answers. Janet left the music business to enter the full-time Christian Science healing practice, and later became a Christian Science teacher.

Janet’s life has been transformed from living in fear for her health and uncertainty about the future to feeling secure in the spiritual basis for health and having a joyous expectation of good. This transformation showed her the life-changing power of God’s goodness and the healing that results from understanding our oneness with God. These ideas have been useful to Janet in her  healing work, and she loves sharing them in her prison ministry, with interfaith groups, and in the public talks she gives on Christian Science.