librarian of the Christian Science Reading Room at the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, the tradition’s first congregation, known as the Mother Church. “We don’t have a personal ...

Mike Van Vleck, left, and Gail Dowdle talk while volunteering at the Christian Science Reading Room in downtown ... American religious tradition, namely the Church of Christ, Scientist, founded in ...

“The reading room is like a parsonage,” said Jasmine Holzworth, librarian of the Christian Science Reading Room at the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, the tradition’s first congregation, ...

Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor because it sees good journalism as ...