Are you searching for answers in a world that seems to have so much uncertainty, conflict and sickness? You may find some answers at our Reading room. It's your community resource for inspiration, spirituality and healing; a quiet space for prayer and Bible study. It is a sanctuary where you can seek and find spiritual answers and insights into the Bible.
You can find out how Christian Science heals, comforts and blesses and have a look at the many resources available.
Whatever situation you find yourself in, whatever your need, you can find the spiritual answers that will lift you out of your struggle to see and experience practical solutions and healing. The staff are ready to respond to your questions, queries, or simply to chat with you about spiritual matters.
Here are some of the resources you'll find when you come in:
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, textbook of Christian Science
Christian Science Bible Study
Christian Science Periodicals
The Christian Science Journal (Monthly)
The Christian Science Sentinel (Weekly and Daily Online)
The Herald of Christian Science (Monthly)
Christian Science Monitor - International Newspaper
Biographies of Mary Baker Eddy, Discover and Founder of Christian Science
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures:
The Christian Science textbook, by Mary Baker Eddy, Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science. Here you'll find the full explanation of Christian Science and its biblical foundation for spiritual regeneration and healing. The 700-page authorized version with marginal numbering and headings can be purchased or borrowed at the Reading Room, along with Eddy's other published writings.
Christian Science Bible Study
The weekly Christian Science Bible Lesson in print, digital and audio formats is available for purchase, listening or reading online, or to borrow in the Reading Room. These lessons are studied daily by Christian Scientists around the world unifying them in spiritual prayer that envelops the world to contribute to global healing.
Christian Science periodicals
Over 100 years of inspiring articles including tens of thousands of testimonies of healings from people who have applied the teachings of Christian Science to every aspect of their life. These articles and testimonies can be read online and in bound volumes. Current weekly and monthly Christian Science magazines dedicated to humanity's spiritual progress, are available in print or online, including:
The Christian Science Journal
The articles in this monthly magazine take a deep dive into the spiritual concepts of Christian Science taught in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
The Christian Science Sentinel
Here you'll find spiritual perspectives - daily and weekly - on current world issues and healings.
The Herald of Christian Science
Publishes articles internationally in 14 languages and includes testimonies of Christian Science healing.
JSH-Online is the site where you can access all of the above magazines anytime via subscription, or you can view online as a guest of our Reading Room.
Christian Science Monitor
If you're interested in world news, you can also access the Christian Science Monitor, a Pulitzer Prize winning, independent international news organization that challenges conventional thinking. Skip the sensationalism, and find constructive conversations on world issues focused on progress. Here you read credible and constructive counter-narratives to the pervasive hopelessness, anger, and fear-inducing brand of reporting. It changes how you see news.
Mary Baker Eddy
Discover the remarkable life of Mary Baker Eddy, one of the 100 Most Influential Women of All Time in the Britannica Guide to the World's Most Influential People. This guide cites Eddy as acknowledging a life of protest against conventional assumptions both in religion and in medicine. Indeed, she led an extraordinary life which included writing her seminal work Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures to give to the world the practical system of Christian healing she discovered in the Bible, particularly from the teachings of Christ Jesus. The Reading Room has many Biographies on the Founder of Christian Science:
A World More Bright: The Life of Mary Baker Eddy
by Isabel Ferguson and Heather Vogel Frederick. Rich in historical context and brimming with lively detail, this book offers an engaging portrait of a bold Christian pioneer and her undaunted search for truth.
Mary Baker Eddy: Christian Healer, Amplified Edition
By Yvonne Cache von Fettweis and Robert Townsend Warneck. Relates stories of this woman's remarkable life in the context of her healing work.
We Knew Mary Baker Eddy, Volumes I & II.
A two-volume biography gives intimate views of Eddy through the eyes of individuals who met and knew her.
Deeper Study
Online access to the archives of the Mary Baker Eddy Library where you can discover an extraordinary life and pathways to the worlds progress.
FAQs
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What is a Christian Science Reading Room?
There are over 1,300 Christian Science Reading Rooms across the world. They are often found near Christian Science churches or societies. Reading rooms serve as a community resource for inspiration, spirituality and healing. Each reading room contains a bookshop for Christian Science literature and a quiet space for prayer and Bible study. Attendants are on hand to respond to any queries you may have or simply to chat about spiritual matters.
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What is Christian Science healing?
The practice of Christian Science healing has resulted in significant cures of physical, mental and personal problems for over a century. The Bible gives us a standard of healing resting on timeless spiritual laws as shown to us by Jesus Christ.
Anyone can learn and apply these spiritual scientific ideas to the demands of today and find resolutions that proves God's goodness. We all want to be healthy, happy, and fulfilled.
We all want to feel a sense of purpose to our lives, to feel secure and valued, to love and be loved. Good health is vital whether we're talking about our bodies, relationships, finances, or environment.
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How do science and Christianity relate?
Christian Science and its healing ministry rests entirely on the affirmation from the Bible that "God is love" (I John 4:16). Those who practice it strive to live the bold, compassionate, pure, generous love that Christ Jesus embodied and taught in his Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7). This is the heart of its Christianity.
Christian Science is also a science because God is understood to be unchanging Love-the infinite Principle that is constant, universal, inclusive, eternal, the only true power and source of all good. It explains the spiritual laws of Love that enabled Jesus to heal sickness and sin. This divine Science also answers our fundamental questions about evil, reality, and eternal life. And as the word science implies, it is reliable, consistent, and provable, bringing healing to individuals and humanity through a deeper understanding of God.
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Does prayer lead to better health?
By understanding the complete goodness of God and our inseparability from that goodness, inspired men and women have found answers to the wide spectrum of human needs, as well as transformation of character and lives. These experiences are "not supernatural but supremely natural," (Science and Health, p. xi) as Christian Science explains. Anyone can learn and apply these spiritually scientific ideas to the contemporary demands we face, and find resolution that proves God's goodness.
This unique approach to healing has proven effective for generations of Christian Scientists, many times after a medical diagnosis indicated a condition was incurable. Christian Science healing is not faith healing, positive thinking, or self-hypnosis. It calls for Christian faith in, and understanding of, God as unconditionally and dependably good, to whom nothing is impossible. Its practice is Christian living - according to Jesus' teaching and example. And its practice is scientific living - according to the spiritual laws of God that can be learned, understood, and proven through healing and regeneration.
Christian Scientists are always free to choose for themselves and their families the kind of healthcare that meets their needs. However, by practicing Christian Science, many have lived happy and healthy lives, free of drugs and other systems of physical care.
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What is Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures?
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures was written in 1875 by Mary Baker Eddy. It contains the full explanation of Christian Science and its biblical foundation for spiritual regeneration and healing, and over 100 pages of testimonials of healings people have received from reading this book.
Read Science and Health here online.
Read or listen to Science and Health online here.
Buy a copy of Science and Health and the Bible from our online shop.
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Who can practice Christian Science healing?
Mary Baker Eddy wrote Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures and founded the Christian Science Church.
Christian Science Practitioners devote their lives to praying for other people. But any student of Christian Science can heal through prayer, from the youngest Sunday Schooler, to the newcomer reading Science and Health for the first time, to the veteran church member. Anybody can heal - and be healed - through Christian Science The last 100 pages of Science and Health contain testimonies of people healed through reading this book.
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How can I learn to heal through prayer?
The Christian Science textbook Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy and the Bible are guides for learning how to practice prayerful healing.
The sincere student of Christian Science who would like to delve even deeper into this study can take Primary Class Instruction from an authorized teacher of Christian Science. To find one, click here
Christian Science Reading Room, Etobicoke
