Article June 26, 2006 Issue

ANNOUNCING my Bible Lesson: A NEW 'FULL TEXT' EDITION TO ENGAGE YOUTH

"The Committee on Sunday School Lessons cannot give too much time and attention to their task, and should spare no research in the preparation of the Quarterly as an educational branch." (Miscellaneous Writings 1883–1896, p. 114)

Board of Trustees, The Christian Science Publishing Society

We're very pleased to announce a new Web-based publication, starting in September 2006, called my Bible Lesson, a "full text" edition of the Christian Science Quarterly Bible Lessons specifically designed for teen and young adult readers. my Bible Lesson includes the Lesson text, Bible notes and biographical information, quotes from Bible translations, timelines, word definitions, and questions—all designed to facilitate students' deeper learning and exploration of the Lesson.

Mary Baker Eddy was a lifelong student of the Holy Bible. Her discovery of Christian Science was the result of a lifetime of pondering the Scriptures and searching their spiritual meaning. As teacher, pastor, lecturer, and healer, she drew inspiration from the Bible constantly. Her establishment of these Bible Lessons as "an educational branch" of her Church nurtures our study and understanding of the Scriptures with correlative passages from the textbook she authored, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

Over the past several years the Board of Trustees, together with the Christian Science Board of Directors, has been giving special thought to making the Bible Lessons more accessible to wider and younger audiences. Recently, The Writings of Mary Baker Eddy, after consulting with young people and Sunday School teachers, published a new Study Edition of the Bible and Science and Health. my Bible Lesson, which is being published by the Trustees, is another step being taken to embrace younger readers, in accord with provisions of the Deed of Trust.^{ "The Trustees shall employ such number of persons as they may deem necessary to prepare Bible Lessons or Lesson Sermons to be read in the Christian Science churches, the same to be published Quarterly as has heretofore been done by and in the name of the Christian Science Quarterly; and they may, in their discretion, change the name or style of such Quarterly publication as occasion may demand." Mary Baker Eddy, Deed of Trust Organizing The Christian Science Publishing Society, January 25, 1898, No. 7 .} Designed in collaboration with the Bible Lesson Committee, TMCYouth, and members in the Field, my Bible Lesson employs technology and study tools that enable readers to engage and interact with the Lesson on the Internet, a communications medium that young people are very comfortable using.