Note: Our Wednesday meeting times have changed. On the first two Wednesday of each month the meetings are at 1pm; the other Wednesdays they are at 7.45pm.
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You can watch our Sunday morning service and most Wednesday evening meetings online. You can also listen by phone.Click to go to the services page.
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Looking for answers? Looking for healing?
Welcome to this website provided by the Christian Science Church and Reading Room in Reading, England. Please stay and explore. Here, you can find out about the teachings of Christian Science and our activities.
You are welcome to contact us for more information or with questions. Our public Reading Room, close to the town centre, is open most days so, if you are near, why not drop in. Our services and meetings are open to all and you can join us in person or by phone and, hopefully, soon by live streaming over the web.
There is plenty on the web about Christian Science healing. Why not visit www.christianscience.com for more information.
You are welcome to contact us for more information or with questions. Our public Reading Room, close to the town centre, is open most days so, if you are near, why not drop in. Our services and meetings are open to all and you can join us in person or by phone and, hopefully, soon by live streaming over the web.
There is plenty on the web about Christian Science healing. Why not visit www.christianscience.com for more information.
What is Christian Science?
Christian Science is a teaching with a strong focus on spirituality and healing. Its purpose is to bless and support people as they meet challenges and to help us all recognise our God-given heritage of health and freedom.
Founded in the 19th century by Mary Baker Eddy, a radical spiritual thinker, Christian Science is based on the Bible and regards itself as strongly Christian in its dedication to the teachings of Jesus and his followers. A foundational statement of the Christian Science movement is that it aims to ‘reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing’. Christian Science should not be confused with Scientology. The Christian Science movement goes under the name of the Church of Christ, Scientist and consists of The Mother Church in Boston, MA, USA and democratically governed branch churches around the world. First Church of Christ, Scientist, Reading is one of the branch churches; one of around 100 such churches in the United Kingdom. To find out more follow this link. |
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Who was Mary Baker Eddy?
Mary Baker Eddy is regarded by Christian Scientists as the discoverer and founder of Christian Science. In our view she reminded the Christian world of the importance of Christian healing as it was practised in the first centuries after Jesus and his early followers.
Mrs Eddy lived in New England from 1821 to 1910 and following a significant healing in 1866 devoted her life to discovering, applying and sharing the spiritual laws behind spiritual healing. She put her teaching in a book, Science and Health with key to the Scriptures, and ultimately founded a church to make this teaching widely available. Among other things she also established an international news organisation, The Christian Science Monitor, with the object to ‘injure no man but to bless all mankind’.
Find out more about Mary Baker Eddy at www.mbelibrary.com
Mrs Eddy lived in New England from 1821 to 1910 and following a significant healing in 1866 devoted her life to discovering, applying and sharing the spiritual laws behind spiritual healing. She put her teaching in a book, Science and Health with key to the Scriptures, and ultimately founded a church to make this teaching widely available. Among other things she also established an international news organisation, The Christian Science Monitor, with the object to ‘injure no man but to bless all mankind’.
Find out more about Mary Baker Eddy at www.mbelibrary.com
What about The Bible?
The Bible is the basis of Christian Science. At the heart of this teaching is God’s love for man, the fact that this love can be seen in inspiration, guidance and healing and above all the biblical tenet,‘God is no respecter of persons’.
Christ Jesus, the Wayshower, is recognised and understood through the Bible and his expectation of his followers, ‘he that believes on me, the works that I do shall he do also and greater works than these shall he do’, together with his commands to love God and love our neighbour is the foundation of true Christianity, not limited by dogma or theology. |
Looking for answers?
If you are looking for satisfying answers to life’s really big questions; questions like why am I here? where can I find peace of mind? is there such a thing as healing through spiritual means alone? why not take a look at this book. Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures was written by Mary Baker Eddy for people like you and, as you will find from reading the last 100 pages, has helped many people over the years: these pages are filled with letters from those who have been healed and found new meaning just from reading the book.
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