The Mother Church in Boston, MA, is the headquarters of The Church of Christ, Scientist, which includes branches around the world.
Click here for a free inside tour of The Mother Church.
Click here if you would like to listen to the Sunday service at The Mother Church. The one hour live broadcast is available on Sundays at 9 am and 4 pm CST. An audio replay is available during the week.
Click here if you would like to listen to the Wednesday service at The Mother Church. The live broadcast is available from 1 pm to 2 pm CST on Wednesdays. An audio replay is available for 24 hours after the service ends.
Katrina Stories:
Just like the rest of the city, the Christian Scientists of Greater New Orleans have their own Katrina stories to share. Here are some of our testimonies of healing from grief after the storm to our ongoing rebirth and renewal.
Family experiences God's love for them during 12 moves after Katrina.
Click here if you are viewing this video from a mobile device. (5/1/10)
Is Christian Science the same asScientology? No. Other than a similarity in name, the two have nothing in common. (Please see "What is Christian Science?" for further information on the healing system discovered by Mary Baker Eddy in 1866.)
Who is Mary Baker Eddy? Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910) discovered the biblically based system of healing through prayer known as Christian Science and established The Church of Christ, Scientist, to preserve and extend it. To learn more about this influential American author and religious leader, click here.
Do Christian Scientists go to doctors? It is up to each individual, but generally a Christian Scientist's first choice is to rely on prayer for healing. There is no biblical nor church rule preventing Christian Scientists from using medical care.
What is a Christian Science Practitioner? Christian Science Practitionersdevote their full time to helping others through prayer. If you want to learn more about prayer-based healing, you may call or e-mail a practitioner in Greater New Orleans or around the world.
Practitioners in the New Orleans area include:
Media Inquiries:
The Committee on Publication is the division of the Christian Science church that handles media relations.
For local inquiries, contact:
Edward J. Castaing, Jr.
Christian Science Committee on Publication for Louisiana
601 Poydras St., Suite 2323
New Orleans, LA 70130
Email: louisiana@compub.org
Phone: 504-442-1233
For a "blog directory" of Christian Science media contacts throughout the world, click here.
Wittich, Kit (Covington) 985-898-3593 or 504-577-8678
Tenets of Christian Science
"1. As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired Word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal Life.
2. We acknowledge and adore one supreme and infinite God. We acknowledge His Son, one Christ; the Holy Ghost or divine Comforter; and man in God's image and likeness.
3. We acknowledge God's forgiveness of sin in the destruction of sin and the spiritual understanding that casts our evil as unreal. But the belief in sin is punished so long as the belief lasts.
4. We acknowledge Jesus' atonement as the evidence of divine, efficacious Love, unfolding man's unity with God through Christ Jesus the Way-shower; and we acknowledge that man is saved through Christ, through Truth, Life, and Love as demonstrated by the Galilean Prophet in healing the sick and overcoming sin and death.
5. We acknowledge that the crucifixion of Jesus and his resurrection served to uplift faith to understand eternal Life, even the allness of Soul, Spirit, and the nothingness of matter.
6. And we solemnly promise to watch, and pray for that Mind to be in us which was also in Christ Jesus; to do unto others as we would have them do unto us; and to be merciful, just, and pure." -- Mary Baker Eddy -- Science and Health with Key to theScriptures 497:3-27
