In 1890, she moved to Chicago to study at Emma Curtis Hopkins' Christian Science Theological Seminary and was ordained, along with Charles and Myrtle Fillmore, the following year.
[1] At the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893 in Chicago, Illinois, she met the Hindu teacher Swami Vivekananda, an event that influenced her to turn away from her formerly Christian view of New Thought to become inclusively interfaith.
Militz and her sister are best known today as the founders, in 1905, of the Home of Truth, an independent New Thought denomination which is a member of INTA, located in Alameda, California.
Home of Truth had some of the most rapid growth of any New Thought group in its early years, but has experienced decline after the deaths of its founders.
[4] Annie and Harriet are buried in the Rix family crypt with their parents and siblings at the San Francisco Columbarium.