Dear Friends,

As always in this issue we have curated a broad selection of articles and podcasts from our wonderful Christian Science periodicals and websites. We hope this will inspire you to pick up a copy and read the whole issue.  Or perhaps log on to a website and peruse additional content.  

There is information on the new Christian Science Audio initiative with a link. We've also included links to articles for the upcoming Reader election. 

A note from The Mother Church: On August 1, The Christian Science Publishing Society will adjust wholesale and retail prices for many Reading Room products. It responds to increased prices to CSPS from third-party sellers of Bible study resources and marking supplies. Prices in the Roswell Reading Room will increase as new stock is ordered.

Thank you all for your continuing support of our Reading Room. 

With love, 

Andrea Hunter, Librarian

Hallie Keel Co-Librarian / Editor

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The Reader Prays

Dear God, this is a sacred, selfless hour.
May I be clothed with Christ's humility
And know Thine is the glory and the power.
Not person but Thy likeness may men see.

I cannot fear when I am serving Thee
That any evil power can do me wrong.
The desk—the very place I love to be—
Is not a target but a fortress strong.

Lord, bless the ones who gather here today,
Who reach out for the truth to make them free.
For each heart filled with suffering or dismay
Must drop its burdens, healed while praising Thee.

I pray Thy voice and only Thine be heard
That rings out with Thy love so clear and sweet
It gives the perfect meaning of Thy Word—
For I, too, listen humbly at Thy feet.

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from the Christian Science Sentinel
MARCH 29, 1947 ISSUE

Christian Science Sentinel

Do prayer and exercise
go together?

 ...I was just finishing a set of Spiderman push-ups when something in my back went all weird. Awkwardly, I struggled to stand up. Bouncing on my toes for a second just to see . . . Wow, yeah, I was done exercising for the day. 

Gingerly I walked home, sure that I’d feel better tomorrow. I was training for a big endurance obstacle course—a ten-mile run interspersed with twenty different obstacles—and this intense workout I’d been doing seemed like just the thing to get me ready for it.

But now this injury threatened to derail it all. For the rest of the week, I couldn’t run, much less do other exercises. And then one week turned into two....

The Bible and the writings of Mary Baker Eddy—is a key feature in the lives of its adherents. Prior to the advent of computers on a mass scale, Christian Scientists used print concordances to aid their exploration of these and other related materials. But the digital age offered new ways to access this content... In the 1980s, Dr. Tom Fuller and his colleagues at The Christian Science Publishing Society began developing a computer-based study resource, which they would eventually name Concord. 

This month we explore the living history and importance of the Concord program, including how its developers are still breaking new ground today.