PAST LECTURES & EVENTS
Finding where God is seen and felt
by Emra Farkas, CSB
Christian Science Practitioner and Teacher
Member of the Christian Science
Board of Lectureship
From our speaker:
The most important influences on Emra’s life were her mother, who taught her to pray when confronted with difficulties, and her Christian Science Sunday School. In her teens, when a teacher asked her to speak to a social studies class about her religion, she found the joy that comes from sharing what she understood and had experienced of Mary Baker Eddy’s discovery.
She was asked back each year and was always moved by the way students who were skeptical about the subject became interested after hearing her accounts of spiritual healing–her healings of a severed thumb, tonsilitis, swimmer’s ear, bullying, and other difficulties.
However, during college and graduate school she drifted away from church. Her degrees were in Fine Arts and after school she worked for galleries and museums in New York City. Her interest in finding spiritual answers to life’s challenges was rekindled, and she explored a variety of spiritual disciplines in search of answers. This hands-on study of comparative religion helped her understand the universality of the search for spiritual truth but left her with unanswered questions.
She and her husband moved to Taos, New Mexico, where she enjoyed a career in music performance and started a family. After some years of poor health, a sudden spiritual insight led her back to Christian Science and an instantaneous healing of multiple chronic illnesses. This inspired a deeper study of Eddy’s writings which then led to returning to church, taking Christian Science class instruction (a two-week intensive course of study) and shortly after, becoming a full-time Christian Science practitioner. She says there is nothing more satisfying than seeing divine Truth and Love transform lives and bring healing. She feels deeply blessed to practice and teach Christian Science, contribute to the Christian Science periodicals, serve her branch church, and serve as a member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship.
Listen to Excerpts From Emra Farkas' Lecture:
Finding where God is seen and felt
Reading Room
Love's promise
Divine principle
Glimpse of reality
Listen to Emra Farkas' Full Lecture
LECTURE
Learning To Love Our Enemies
by Giulia Nesi Tetreau, CSB
Christian Science Practitioner and Teacher
Member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship
Watch the Replay
Photos from the Event
Your Home Away From Home
Where: 880 W. State St., Boise, ID
When: February 22nd at 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. MST
Hosted online by Todd Zimmerman, the Enrollment Coordinator for Newfound and Owatonna, Christian Science Camps in Maine
Camp staff will showed videos, shared information, and took questions from attendees. Videos were of Camp Newfound, Camp Owatonna, Family Camp, and Creative Arts Camp.
Thank you to everyone who participated in the Idaho DiscoveryBound Painting event:
"Empty Bowls for the Idaho Food Bank” a couple of Sundays ago in Boise. It was a community event with a loving purpose enjoyed by all. Hope to see you at the next event! 😊
Those who were present to hear the Ann Kneeland lecture came away with three main concepts that she shared:
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Spiritual healing is a result of a change of thought;
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We're actually living in God; and also
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Everyone is living in God
To hear more from Ann, here are three resources:
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A 30-min spiritual discussion from Sunday in June this year at Annual Meeting: bit.ly/TMC26AnnKneeland
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A 1-hour "Ask Me Anything" interfaith YouTube video: bit.ly/AMA23AnnKneeland
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3. Links to her published articles, testimonies, and Sentinel Radio podcasts at: www.AnnKneeland.com/healing
Every lecture on Christian Science is informative, inspiring, and leaves one yearning to dive deeper.
LECTURE FROM NOVEMBER, 2024
by Nikki O'Hagan, CS from Naas, Country Kildare, Ireland
Nikki is a Christian Science Practitioner, and a
Member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship
FROM OUR SPEAKER:
Misconceptions about ourselves and the world we live in are often corrected by advances in science which bring paradigm shifts to our ways of thinking and understanding existence — like discovering that the earth revolves around the sun, rather than the other way around.
The current matter-based scientific model leaves many questions unanswered and has some thinkers and scientists questioning if it is still the right model. It is interesting to consider if the time has now come for another major paradigm shift in science – a shift that would include God as the center and circumference of all existence. This paradigm shift in thought begins with the questions - how does science relate to God and is there a science that explains God?
Nikki will address these questions and show how the Science of God explains Jesus’ healings, and teachings, makes God knowable and understandable, and provides humanity with a safe and reliable means for caring for ourselves and each other.
Nikki will also share some of her own experiences of the transforming, healing power of God gained through understanding this science of God, or Christian Science. She will explain how this healing happens, and what role consciousness plays in the process.
CELEBRATING 125 YEARS, SEPTEMBER, 2024
A Christian Science Film Festival
at First Church Boise, 880 W. State St., Boise, Idaho
Sponsored by First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boise
Featured three 30-minute films on second-generation Christian Science workers
Dr. John Tutt
lvimy Gwalter
Paul Stark Seeley
Introduction and Q&A with the Producer The Effulgence Foundation
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TALK, SPRING 2024
A new view of God and its effect on well-being
by Phillip Hockley, CS from Wales, UK
Phillip is a Christian Science Practitioner, and a
Member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship
