Ringing a Bell for Democracy, with Churches all over Boston, on the day Paul Revere, William Dawes and others rode from Charlestown to Lexington.
Learning to Love Your Enemies
Please join us at 3512 Washington Street, in Jamaica Plain, on April 22, 2025, at 5:30PM, to hear a Christian Science Lecture entitled, Learning to Love Your Enemies, by Giulia Nesi Tetreau, CSB.
Christian Science Monitor Prayer Group
Please join us every Monday night, at 7PM, on our Zoom link, to pray about what is in the news. Each week we read an article, have conversation about how we are praying or intend to pray about the information in the article, and then we take some time to pray silently with each other.
You will find this week’s article below
The Christian Science Reading Room Opens Its Doors—You’re Invited!
Two Free Public Events This Spring in Jamaica Plain
The Christian Science Reading Room in Jamaica Plain welcomes neighbors and the wider Boston community to two free public events this spring, held in celebration of our newly renovated space and our commitment to meaningful dialogue, healing, and community engagement.
A Public Talk on Healing – Monday, April 22 at 7:00 p.m.
The first event is a public lecture exploring the spiritual practice of loving even our enemies, and the healing power this perspective can bring to personal and collective challenges. The talk will be given by Giulia Nesi Tetreau, a former licensed psychotherapist, whose early career in social work eventually led her to the spiritual practice of Christian Science. Today, she is a full-time Christian Science healer, helping others find mental clarity, freedom, and peace through a spiritual understanding of divine Love. All are warmly invited to explore a message of hope and practical healing.
A Global Climate Panel with Local Voices – Monday, May 5 at 7:00 p.m.
Our second event highlights “The Climate Generation,” a compelling global reporting series from The Christian Science Monitor, a Pulitzer Prize–winning newspaper. A panel of Monitor journalists and local youth activists will share stories from around the world and right here in Boston, offering a fresh and hopeful take on how a generation is responding to the climate crisis with innovation, courage, and compassion. Attendees will receive a free, beautifully designed, 80-page magazine of the Monitor’s award-winning reporting—perfect for classroom or group discussion.
Both events will be held at the Christian Science Reading Room, 3512 Washington Street, Jamaica Plain.
All are warmly invited to come explore the space, meet neighbors, and take part in conversations that matter.
Christian Science Monitor Prayer Group
Please join us every Monday night, at 7PM, on our Zoom link, to pray about what is in the news. Each week we read an article, have conversation about how we are praying or intend to pray about the information in the article, and then we take some time to pray silently with each other.
You will find this week’s article below
Come Sing Christmas Carols With Us!
Tonight, Sunday, Dec. 15, you are warmly invited to come join us! See you soon!
Tonight - Wednesday Dec 11 we are online only!
Dear friends!
Tonight we will be online only for our healing Wednesday testimony meeting. We can’t wait for you to join us tonight at 7:30 p.m. with your open hearts.
"Testimony in regard to the healing of the sick is highly important. More than a mere rehearsal of blessings, it scales the pinnacle of praise and illustrates the demonstration of Christ, 'who healeth all thy diseases.,’" writes the discoverer and founder of Christian Science, who provided that we hold these meetings. The apostle John says, "That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ." And David exclaimed, "I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee."
Bring your healing and your pure thought of gratitude for Life, Truth, and Love, and their innumerable and constant manifestations to "the children of men," together with the loving desire to persuade others to investigate Christian Science, should impel us tonight!
See you soon!
Monday night Monitor Prayer Watch
Dear Friends,
We are eager to meet together for our next Monitor prayer session on Monday, November 11th at 7pm ET. These meetings bring forth insightful discussions and wonderful opportunities to come together in a thoughtful and prayerful way for our world. Tee will be our host. We would love to have you join us.
This week we will consider the most recent article from Sudan. Its focus is COMMUNITY. We will also include the current Why We Wrote This podcast that shares why and how they went deep on Sudan, where a civil war has been devastating, but where resilience and agency endure. Both links are listed below. It is helpful to have read the article and listened to the podcast beforehand, but you are welcome to join us regardless. Feel free to share this email with others who might want to participate, as well.
Article: How a Sudanese refugee in Uganda is keeping his homeland alive through food
by Sophie Neiman, 10/25/24 KIRYANDONGO REFUGEE SETTLEMENT, UGANDA
This is the fourth article in a series from Sudan that we are publishing this week, highlighting that country’s travails and citizens’ efforts to overcome them. Read the first three articles here, here, and here.
WHY WE WROTE THIS
Sudan’s civil war has forced more than 11 million people to flee their homes. In a refugee camp in Uganda, one restaurant owner is trying to resurrect his homeland with food.
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2024/1025/sudan-war-uganda-refugees-food
Podcast: ‘A bridge to humanity’: Behind a Monitor series on an underreported story,
Why We Went Deep on Sudan
Clay Collins, Peter Ford and Ryan Lenora Brown, 11/1/24
“Our stories in and from Sudan are about how … people can rise above that chaos and the difficulties and they can find ways of working together to overcome their problems,” Peter says on our “Why We Wrote This” podcast. That coverage, which included a recent series organized by Johannesburg-based editor Ryan Lenora Brown, helps give readers “a really different picture of life in Africa.”
https://www.csmonitor.com/Podcasts/Why-We-Wrote-This/wwwt_2438
There is also an episode transcript available as one scrolls down on the linked page.
The podcast is available on Apple and Spotify, as well.
We are looking forward to this expression of church that propels us towards prayer.
Warmly,
Your JP Monitor prayer team (Brian, Janell, Joe, Sarah and Tee)
Come to our Open House!
Friends we are delighted to invite you to our grand opening! After months of renovation we’re ready to share with you the fruit of our labor. We are excited to meet you.
Come have a look around and see what we’ve been up to.
This space is a space where we want you to feel embraced by Divine Love in a cozy hug and can find healing and inspiration.
We meet here every Sunday to hear readings from The Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy to elevate our thought to a more spiritual perspective. We also meet here on Wednesdays to share healings we’ve had through our study of Christian Science. The space is also a Reading Room and Bookstore, where you can sit and read articles or books that radically inspire. Meet the folks who helped us create this spot and see where you, too, can come to uplift your thought and study!
Wake Up the Earth May 4
Jamaica Plain’s annual “WUTE” celebration of art, culture, and activism spotlights sustainability and social justice always featuring a vibrant parade with a costume twist for participants, such as this year’s jedis and dragons. Our booth featured “Born into Crisis, Building Solutions,” a Christian Science Monitor series on how the ‘climate generation’ born after 1989 is reshaping our understanding of work, culture, “progress,” human rights, and community.
Hosts (from left:) Sarah, Christa, Gretchen, Emily, (also Kendra, Victoria and Janell) had great conversations and gifted at least 100 Monitors to visitors.
Church member Joe Ninesling (VT) provided the wind-proof structure to secure blow-ups of climate series covers.
Examples of what we shared...
- the series’ first article (11/6/23) featuring a Turkish teen with a teenager visitor
- "His gift of gab and hope may determine the temperature of your world " (11/13/23) featuring Namibian Deon Shekuza with an interested South African
- a Science and Health and recent Sentinel with a woman uncertain about medicine who wanted to know know how prayer heals
- a Monitor article on Israel and Palestine with a booth dedicated to social justice
- a MediaBias chart and Monitor with a podcaster focused on fair reporting
- clarification of the difference between Christian Science and Scientology
- “The incredible shrinking family” cover story with several young families
