Lectures
Twice a year this church hosts a public lecture — an honest explanation of Christian Science and its healing practice.
Most recent · 2026
James Shepherd, CS · Saturday, March 28, 2026 · 2:00 p.m.
Each one of us is connected to God. No one is left out. This talk explores the nature of God, infinite Love, as the only cause — and our unbreakable connection to God as God’s offspring. That connection gives us purpose and worth. Seeing ourselves and others as God sees us is a spiritual point of view that heals.
James Shepherd is a Christian Science practitioner from Eugene, Oregon, and a member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship. He has seen the healing effects of God’s love since he was a youngster, romping through the woods with his three brothers — scrapes and bruises quickly healed through prayer. He earned a degree in agriculture, then left ranch life for the full-time healing practice, work he has loved for more than thirty years. He has shared this message in churches, prisons, youth detention centers, and summer camps. His greatest joy is helping others find a more tangible sense of God’s love for everyone.
2026
Janet Hegarty, CSB · Saturday, February 21, 2026
I may not be an architect, but I know the value of a strong foundation. This talk is an invitation to build on a better concept of God — not merely sometimes good, but all good, only good, always — and to see the practical, lasting change that follows: healing, honesty, and a restored sense of purpose.
2024
Mark McCurties, CS
There is a great need for healing in the world today. This talk considers how following Christ Jesus’ example — especially his profound humility — links us to God, connects us with God’s healing and saving laws, and empowers us to meet hard problems.
2023
Janet Hegarty, CSB
Love might be what life is all about. A bigger, truer sense of God as Love refines our search for love, meets a lack or loss of love, brings more thoughtful affection to our relationships, and can result in physical healing.
2021
Tom McElroy, CS
Discovery is what has progressed humanity throughout history. Spiritual discovery strips away surface-level appearances in order to see our lives and the world through the nature of an all-good God. This talk is about how we find real change and healing through new views of people, power, and prayer.
Christian Science lectures are given by members of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church. Find talks near you.
From the early lectureship
Newspaper printings and collected transcripts of talks that helped introduce Christian Science to the public. Kimball and Young served on the Board of Lectureship.
Newspaper printings and collected transcripts. Kimball served on the Board of Lectureship.
1899 · Chicago
Edward A. Kimball, C.S.D.
Given at First Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago, and printed in The Daily Inter Ocean (March 2, 1899). Kimball takes Paul’s question as the heart of Christian Science: sickness and death are not of God, and divine Mind heals without material means.
The Daily Inter Ocean · March 2, 1899
1900 · Kansas City
Edward A. Kimball, C.S.D.
His 200th lecture, given Sunday, September 30, 1900, in Convention Hall before about ten thousand people. Printed the next day in The Kansas City Star. Christian Science as a religion that heals — the Principle set forth in Science and Health, and its natural influence for those pressed by sin, disease, and despair.
The Kansas City Star · October 1, 1900
1899 · Kansas City
Edward A. Kimball, C.S.D.
December 11, 1899, at First Church of Christ, Scientist, Kansas City. Kimball presents Christian Science as the Science of Christianity — a demonstrable method of healing that re-establishes Jesus’ ministry as natural and lawful.
Collected in Lectures and Articles on Christian Science (1921)
1903 · Baltimore
Edward A. Kimball, C.S.D.
Christian Science presented as practical religion — not mysticism — for everyday life.
Lectures and Articles on Christian Science
Collected volume: Lectures and Articles on Christian Science (PDF) · Internet Archive. Eighteen lectures and articles collected by Kimball’s daughter (1921), including the Kansas City Star and Chicago talks.
Early Board of Lectureship talks, given in churches across the country.
1907 · Chicago
Bicknell Young, C.S.B.
An early Board of Lectureship talk from Chicago. Young sets out the salient points of Christian Science for a public that had not yet entertained a scientific view of God, showing good as the only real power.
Board of Lectureship transcript
1910 · Boston · The Mother Church
Bicknell Young, C.S.B.
Delivered in The Mother Church, May 9, 1910. Disease and sin are not inevitable; they yield as thought discerns divine Principle, good, as the only power — evidenced already by thousands healed.
The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston
1917 · Indianapolis
Bicknell Young, C.S.B.
Tomlinson Hall, more than four thousand present, under the auspices of Third Church of Christ, Scientist. Young presents Christian Science as the Science of Life discovered by Mary Baker Eddy in 1866 — divine intelligence healing, evil as error destroyed by Truth.
Third Church of Christ, Scientist, Indianapolis
1921 · Cambridge, Massachusetts
Bicknell Young, C.S.B.
Material systems leave sin, disease, and death untouched. This talk presents Christian Science as a science of divine facts: thought governs health and peace, and understanding God as infinite Mind removes what would destroy life.
Board of Lectureship transcript