The 2022 lecture was held at the State Theater in Auburn in co-sponsorship with First Church of Christ, Scientist, Auburn. The lecture was given by Tom McElroy, CSB, a spiritual healer and teacher of Christian Science. Tom McElroy has been a Christian Science practitioner for many years, helping people on a daily basis through this scientific approach to prayer.

This lecture is about spiritual discovery. It’s about understanding more of what God is and learning to see our lives and the world through the lens of God’s all-good nature. It’s about stripping away surface-level appearances in order to discern what actually is. Spiritual discovery reveals what is substantial, lasting, and powerful — and this leads to healing. What’s the outcome? Progress. Transformation. Wholeness. For anyone.

Christ Jesus modeled a universal way to pray that leads to a greater awareness of the nature of God and of our relation to God. He showed us how turning from fear and preconceived notions to a clearer view of the presence of a God that is Love and Life itself can have a tangible, healing effect in our lives. Bible accounts indicate that others who followed his example and teachings proved this too. Freedom from injustice, hunger, illness, even incurable disease, was gained through discovering more of what God is and does.

Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of this approach to Christianity, Christian Science makes clear the timeless, universal, and repeatable healing truths that underpin Jesus’ life and teachings. Eddy’s primary work, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, explains Christian Science so that anyone can apply it and experience it for themselves.

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The 2019 lecture was held at the Tower Theater in Roseville in co-sponsorship with First Church of Christ, Scientist, Auburn. The lecture was given by Phillip Hockley, CS, a spiritual practitioner of Christian Science residing in Wales in the United Kingdom.

In the early 1990s a fall that badly injured Phillip Hockley’s spine started a seven year downward spiral of ill health. By 1999, after trying every alternative and spiritual healing method, without any cure, Phillip was registered as physically handicapped. Phillip attended his first ever Christian Science lecture — it was truly transformational. Not only was he healed of all his diseases at that event but also, more importantly, he was healed of his hardness towards the message of the Bible — telling us of God’s great love for each one of us.

To Phillip, Christian Science explains the Bible promises so clearly, and the greatest of the promises is that we can all feel and live with this divine love, a heavenly love, here and now. Phillip shares the perspective that Christian Science offers freedom from whatever in our lives seems painful, debilitating, or limiting. He talks about a 19th-century woman, Mary Baker Eddy, who, after a life-threatening injury, discovered this new view of God for herself and went on to explain her discovery and its Bible-based principles in her book Science and Health.

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On the website created by Christian Science churches in Connecticut, there is a collection of 312 audio-only recordings of historic lectures. Some lectures are actual recordings of the lecture as delivered by the lecturer, some are readings of lecture texts, and many are synthesized (converted) from text to speech by a computer program providing a life-like audio. To view the website page listing the lectures, click here.