Hollywood legend Val Kilmer drew an outpouring of grief ... Throughout his health struggles, he found solace in Christian Science, a 19th century American movement that teaches that diseases ...

Film fans have been mourning the death of Top Gun star Val Kilmer ... Following his Christian Science beliefs, Kilmer thought that death was just a human limitation, and life would continue ...

She died in 1910.” It is not until the next morning that I realize Mary Baker Eddy was the founder of Christian Science, and that Val Kilmer is a Christian Scientist. “Well, I am trying to be ...

Editor's note: In 2020, USA TODAY editor Barbara VanDenburgh reported on the emotional and striking revelations from Val ... now out of my control." Kilmer is a devout Christian Scientist, a ...

Val Kilmer, a prolific actor who got his start ... Initially, Kilmer didn’t seek medical treatment as it went against his Christian Science faith, but eventually did so. Kilmer would continue ...

Val Kilmer, who played Bruce Wayne in “Batman ... He combined his fascination with Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy with his love of Mark Twain in a screenplay that featured the two ...

Val Kilmer, an actor who rose to Hollywood ... and he said he initially wanted to rely on his Christian Science faith for healing but was persuaded to seek medical help after his children ...

Val Kilmer. To the public ... He fund-raised for a film on Christian Science discoverer Mary Baker Eddy. In an Italian restaurant he’d order tuna not pasta. He watched a Will Ferrell show ...

If God spoke in a still, small voice, for my generation, it was the voice of Val Kilmer ... in an interview with the Christian Science Sentinel, Kilmer revealed a traditionally Jewish ...

Val Kilmer has died of pneomonia at the age ... But while he wanted to go away with a Christian Science practitioner – which is essentially a spiritual advisor – to heal, his family did ...