For individual church and society times, please visit our website here.

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Mary Baker Eddy dedicated her chief work Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures to “honest seekers for Truth.” The Seekers and Scholars podcast series celebrates the spirit of inquiry that is illuminating engagement with Eddy’s life, writings, and ideas in a wide variety of fields. Join The Mary Baker Eddy Library for monthly episodes at the intersection of scholarship and spiritual quest.

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Discovery Bound is encouraging families to participate in their family weekend at the A/U Ranches in Colorado!

This is a wonderful opportunity to relax and have fun while enjoying the company of other Christian Science families and friends. Take part in sledding, broom hockey, climbing in the Rock Gym, horseback riding, games and cards in the lodge and much more. Even if you have a good book you are trying to finish, bring it along and enjoy reading by the fire. Feel free to do as few or as many activities as you want, but come be a part of the fun!

WHEN: Friday, March 1 – Sunday, March 3, 2019

WHERE: A/U Ranches, Buena Vista, CO

WHO: Christian Science families and their friends of all faiths. This is not a teen only weekend. There will be no chaperones provided and families will be housed in cabins.

COST: $69 per person (included in the cost are all meals beginning with Saturday breakfast through Sunday lunch, lodging and Ranch activities. Horseback riding is an additional expense and can be purchased when registering.)

FINANCIAL AID: If needed, up to $34 in financial aid is available for youth 17 and under. When registering, you will have the opportunity to apply.

TRAVEL: Please plan to arrive at the A/U Ranches between 7-8pm on Friday, March 1. Departure on Sunday will be at 1pm.

CANCELLATION POLICY: If for some reason you need to cancel, you may do so up until Friday, February 8 with a $35 cancellation fee. No refunds will be given after February 8.

CONTACT: Krista Capp – (303) 376-7572 – krista@discoverybound.org

Registration closes February 20, 2019

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to be in touch. We look forward to seeing you there!

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For more information please contact the Educational Programs Coordinator Marie Palladino at 617-450-7203 or palladinom@mbelibrary.org

…Mary was a bookworm. Sometimes when her siblings went out to play, she’d stay at home reading. Other times when she joined them, as often as not she’d eventually slip away to a secluded spot where they’d find her later, engrossed in a book.
—From A World More Bright: The Life of Mary Baker Eddy by Isabel Ferguson and Heather Vogel Frederick

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Start your Thanksgiving holiday with a spiritual feast including songs of gratitude and praise.  You will hear a brief selection of inspirational readings from the Bible and the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, followed by sharing of gratitude and testimonies of healing.

It’s a joyous celebration open to the community!

Thanksgiving service is offered by these churches in the Houston area:

10 a.m. – 11 a.m.

• Fourth Church Houston – 4910 Montrose Blvd., Houston, TX 77006
• Eighth Church Houston – 11976 Memorial Drive, Houston, TX 77024
• Ninth Church Houston – 6805 Cypresswood Drive, Spring, TX 77379
• First Church Friendswood – 1700 Winding Way Dr., Friendswood, TX 77546

10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

• Seventh Church Houston – 1740 Yorktown, Houston, TX 77056; Streaming on SeventhChurchLive.com or 713-496-2856
• First Church The Woodlands – 1340 North Millbend Dr., The Woodlands, TX 77380
• First Church Bellaire – 4527 Bellaire Blvd., Bellaire, TX 77401

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Please join us for a free lecture by Josh Niles, CSB, titled “The law of harmony and Christian Science healing” on Saturday November 10th at 10:00 AM. This lecture will take place at:

Celebration Garden at the  McGovern Centennial Gardens
1500 Hermann Dr
Houston, TX 77004

Josh is a Christian Science Practitioner and Teacher.  He will talk about how harmony is actually a constant and consistent law of God and how Mary Baker Eddy’s discovery of these divine laws, which have been in operation throughout all time, can be brought to bear in any circumstance through holy inspired prayer. Christ Jesus mapped the way for all mankind to better understand God and feel His undiminished love, which leads to harmony and healing. Josh will share examples of healing through Christian Science from his own life to help illustrate that everyone can experience the kind of harmony and healing that Jesus pointed to  in his ministry.

This lecture is sponsored by Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist, Houston.

If you would like to view more details of Josh Niles’ lecture, please click here.

The second of the two lectures is Peace Haven’s Annual 2018 Meeting on Saturday November 10th with keynote speaker Christine Irby Williams speaking on “Let us rise up and build”  from 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM at:

First Church of Christ, Scientist, Town and Country
750 South Mason Road
Town and Country, MO 63141

If you cannot make this lecture in person, you can call in at 314-627-1157 with the code 197369.

Christine “Chris” Williams’ consecrated service to the Christian Science movement includes her work over many years in the field of Christian Science nursing through education and management. She has written for the Christian Science periodicals and served in almost every capacity as a branch church member. Currently, Chris serves as Chairman of the Tenacre Board of Trustees; she is also a member of the Principle Foundation’s Board of Directors. Chris has given numerous inspirational talks, taught Bible classes, addressed Christian Science Associations, and facilitated workshops on a variety of subjects for Christian Science nursing organizations, camps, schools, and branch churches. Peace Haven’s Trustees and staff are delighted to welcome her as the Keynote Speaker for our 2018 Annual Meeting.

If you would like to view more details of Christine Irby Williams’ lecture/s, please click here.

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Who doesn’t get a lift from seeing individuals of “advancing years” taking on and enjoying vigorous and even challenging physical activities, or pursuing an education they missed out on in their youth, or taking on and thriving in a new and demanding career, or expressing grace and genuine love while engaging in volunteer activities that provide needed services for others? And we are especially heartened when we see someone courageously, patiently, and persistently making progress in defeating severe age-related challenges.   What gives us a lift isn’t that these individuals are proud of what they can do at their age, or that they are struggling to keep young, or that, like cheese, they get better with aging.

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Located forty miles southwest of Boston, Attleborough, Massachusetts, played its little-known part in the expanding Christian Science movement. In the early 1880s the town was approaching 12,000 citizens and in transition, moving from textile manufacturing to become a hub of jewelry making. Incorporated as a city in 1914, its spelling officially changed to Attleboro, by 1950 it would be dubbed “Jewelry Capital of the World.”¹

The early 1880s also marked a time of transition for Mary Baker Eddy and the fledgling Church of Christ (Scientist), which she had founded in 1879. Holding regular services in Boston, where Eddy had just chartered her Massachusetts Metaphysical College, the church was gaining followers. Within a few years Eddy reported that the state capital was “boiling with the ferment of this glorious ‘leaven’,”² Eddy was devoted to sharing her discovery as widely as possible—not only in New England’s major city but wherever receptive individuals might be found. So she headed to Attleborough in December 1881, to give a Christian Science lecture to a fresh audience in a new setting.

George D. Choate laid the groundwork for the event. A student of Eddy with his own Christian Science healing practice in Attleborough, he was at that time an active member of the Christian Science movement.³ While practicing in Attleborough, Choate had healed the wife of Eliot Hunt, as well as their daughter. The enthusiastic Hunt was proprietor of the Attleborough Chronicle newspaper—and proved a valuable contact.

Hunt agreed to attend Eddy’s lecture, scheduled for December 2, and to publish a review of it. Then three days before the date Choate wrote to Eddy with bad news:

Do read this letter and help me, advise me show me the way out or I’ll be in hot water at once you know and God knows it is false. I thought I had everything ready for Friday night, but I find there is to be a cantata at the church.⁴

While we don’t know Eddy’s response, her lecture did take place—its review appeared in the December 17 edition of the Chronicle. It seems most likely that she spoke on Friday, December 16. Unfortunately the only existing records of the lecture are Choate’s letter and Hunt’s published words—the venue and title remain mysteries. By 1881 Eddy had delivered many addresses in Boston, with titles such as “How Christianity Lost Its Element of Healing,” “Christian Healing and Mesmerism Contrasted,” and “How to be Healthy and Happy.” It’s possible the Attleboro lecture was one of these, or a hybrid.

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Mary Baker Eddy dedicated her chief work Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures to “honest seekers for Truth.” The Seekers and Scholars podcast series celebrates the spirit of inquiry that is illuminating engagement with Eddy’s life, writings, and ideas in a wide variety of fields. Join The Mary Baker Eddy Library for monthly episodes at the intersection of scholarship and spiritual quest.

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