Weekly activities at DC Reading Rooms resume this week

All are welcome!

• Tuesday – Listen to the weekly Sentinel Watch podcast (online gathering)
• Wednesday – Discussion of current articles in The Christian Science Monitor (hybrid event in downtown DC)
• Thursday – Evening Bible reading and discussion (online gathering)

Prayer: What’s it all about?

What’s one of the best ways to start the new year?
We think it’s got to be focusing on prayer
and how to pray even more effectively.
So, we’re revisiting this helpful podcast from our archives.
This week’s guest sheds light on how her practice of Christian Science
has brought freshness to her prayers—and healing to her life.

Join us via Zoom to hear this Sentinel Watch podcast

• Tuesday, January 7
• 2:00 pm EST
• via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83436895293
• Meeting ID: 834 3689 5293
• OR, join by phone: 1-301-715-8592

(NOTE: The current and past Sentinel Watch programs are always available online.)

This week’s print edition of the Christian Science Sentinel includes these articles which enlighten our prayers:

• Are we benefited by praying?
• A divine blueprint for environmental stewardship
• Loving the Scriptures: Baptism
• Blessings from the Ninth Commandment
• Saved from abuse, supported by church
• plus, more testimonies of spiritual healing

(Articles are offered in audio format as well as print.)

“to injure no man but to bless all mankind”

Go to CSMonitor.com for the latest headline news

The weekly Monitor Discussion group.
Wednesday at 5:30 – 7:00 pm
Join in-person at Christian Science Reading Room, 910 – 16 St. NW
OR join remotely at: https://bit.ly/firstchurchdcrr

The following will be the focus of this week’s discussion, which will include developing a spiritual response to today’s challenges:

• Boat strikes off Venezuela mark shift in 54-year US war on drugs
• Seizing Venezuela’s Maduro, Trump implements his corollary to Monroe Doctrine
• ‘Finding a window of hope’: Lebanon’s community holds strong amid ceasefire
• Many Senegalese are braving dangerous seas to get to Europe. Can they be convinced to stay?
• Other current articles may be discussed as they arise

For more information and to find out about ordering dinner for this event
(place your order from PotBelly before 4pm)
and join to eat together at 5pm,
call 202-807-1877 or email readingroom@firstchurchdc.org
All are welcome!

Thursday evening Bible study group.
Feel free to join this online gathering.
Hosted by Christian Science Reading Room, 910 – 16 St. NW
For more information, email: readingroom@firstchurchdc.org

Thursday evenings at 7:00-8:15pm

Join the online Bible Study group
Online Conference at: https://bit.ly/firstchurchdcrr
Password: Truth
Meeting ID/password: 9101691016
Or call: (253) 215-8782

Listen to and explore many audio resources—
podcasts, articles, books, and more.
Learn more about the Bible by reading or listening to
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy,
a book dedicated to the spiritual seeker.
Available to read or listen to online for free.

There are Reading Rooms in the DC metropolitan area
(and around the world)
where you can discuss ideas and ask questions
about the above programs and articles

• Visit a local Reading Room
• Email us at jmrr.dc@gmail.com
• Visit our website to find quick links to more information

thought for today

Spontaneity invites us all to become new—
new in thought,
new in substance,
new in being.
It bids us “put off the old man,” and “put on the new.”

(Read the full poem All things new… by James Walter,
in the January 2026 issue of The Christian Science Journal)

Wishing you all the blessings, peace, and comfort of the New Year.

Jointly Maintained Christian Science Reading Room
PO Box 9511 • Washington, DC 20016        240-935-8697
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Springfield, Virginia, Reading Room (5315 Backlick Road, Springfield, VA 22151) is hosting two public talks on the history and archaeology of the Old Testament.

Saturday, 22 April      1 pm          A Tale of Two Kingdoms (Israel and Judah)

Saturday, 13 May        1 pm         The Dead Sea Scrolls Demystified

No registration required. Free to anyone interested. In-person only.

Questions should be directed to ClerkCSSpringfield@gmail.com or 703-941-7540. 

The speaker, Bruce Slawter, has presented several hundred talks on the origins of the Bible.  Based upon extensive outside research and travel to the Near East, his presentation will include recent Biblical archeological news.

To help commemorate this season’s convergence of two important holidays – one Christian, the other Jewish – Mr. Slawter invites you to read his latest blog, which is a tribute to the scribes who faithfully put the final touches on our Old Testaments and Hebrew Bibles.

https://bruceslawter.com/2023/04/08/the-most-valuable-bible-in-the-world/

“May this Easter and Passover bring each of you and your families renewed faith, new hope, and continued blessings.  Hope to see you at one of the upcoming talks on “Biblical Israel” in Springfield, VA.

Warmest regards,  Bruce Slawter”