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Christian Science
Lectures

Fourth Church sponsors a free Christian Science lecture each year, open to everyone. All are warmly welcome.

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Fourth Church sponsors a free Christian Science lecture each year. Details of the next lecture will appear here as soon as they are confirmed.

For enquiries please email us or call 0161 834 4129.

A wide range of Christian Science lectures from around the world are available at christianscience.com/lectures.

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Past Lectures

Lectures sponsored or hosted by Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist, Manchester. Click a year to expand, then a lecture for full details and the original poster.

DateSaturday 28 March 2026
Time3:00 pm GMT
FormatIn person & online
VenueThe Lecture Room, Manchester Art Gallery, Mosley Street, Manchester M2 3JL
AdmissionFree
Sponsored bySponsored by Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist, Manchester
How can spiritual perception bring healing? This lecture explored the idea that seeing situations and people as God sees them — through a spiritual lens — opens the door to healing in every area of life. Alexandre Fischer drew on his own experience of Christian Science healing to bring this possibility vividly to life.
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Lecture poster — March 2026

DateSaturday 3 May 2025
Time2:00 pm
FormatIn person
VenueThe Lecture Room, Manchester Art Gallery, Mosley Street, Manchester M2 3JL
AdmissionFree  ·  approximately one hour
Sponsored byHosted by Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist, Manchester
Practical, transformative prayer makes a difference in the world, when we learn to trust God as infinite Mind and Truth. This talk offered a grounded, prayerful approach to finding a genuine and lasting solution to feelings of hopelessness.
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Lecture poster — May 2025

DateSaturday 28 January 2023
Time3:00 pm GMT
FormatOnline  ·  fccsmcr.org/lecture
VenueOnline at fccsmcr.org/lecture
AdmissionFree
Sponsored byCo-sponsored by Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist, Manchester & Christian Science Society, Wakefield, W. Yorkshire
Explore pragmatic faith rooted in a spiritual understanding of God and unconditional love. This lecture invited listeners to discover a faith that is practical, life-changing, and grounded in the spiritual adventure of discovering God's love as the source of genuine well-being.

Lecture poster — January 2023

DateSaturday 27 October 2018
Time2:00 pm
FormatIn person  ·  Q&A after the lecture
VenueEdwardian Radisson Blu Hotel, Peter Street, Manchester M2 5GP
AdmissionFree
Sponsored bySponsored by Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist, Manchester
Through honest talk about the questions sceptics ask, this lecture tackled the essentials of Christian Science — its theology, its Christianity, and its role in healing. Michelle Nanouche began her training as a Christian Science Nurse while still in high school and brings over 30 years of professional healing experience to her work.
Lecture poster

Lecture poster — October 2018

Alexandre Fischer — Christian Science Lecture at Fourth Church Manchester

The Board of Lectureship

About Christian Science Lectures

Christian Science lectures have been offered to the public since the founding of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston. They are a longstanding tradition of openness — an invitation to anyone curious about Christian Science to come and hear it explained, clearly and freely, by someone who lives it.

The Christian Science Board of Lectureship is an international body of practitioners and teachers who travel the world to give these talks. Each lecturer speaks from their own experience of healing and prayer.

Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist, Manchester sponsors a free public lecture each year — one of the principal ways this church reaches out to the wider community of Manchester with the practical good news that healing through prayer is available today.

All lectures are free. No ticket, no registration, no prior knowledge required. Simply come along.

For enquiries: clerkfccsmcr@gmail.com  ·  0161 834 4129

Everyone is welcome.

Our lectures are free — no ticket, no registration, no prior knowledge required.