Tuesday, June 6, 2023
The Bible Lens can now be printed from either the ‘Print’ button or the ‘Downloads’ button located at the top of the lesson page.
Tuesday, September 26, 2022
The Bible Lens is now printed from the Bible Lens page on the Christian Science Sentinel website (https://sentinel.christianscience.com/columns/bible-lens).
Wednesday, August 30, 2022
Amazon is no longer allowing MOBI files to be emailed to your Kindle device. Compatible formats now include EPUB (.epub), which you can send to your library using your Send to Kindle email address.
Wednesday, March 30, 2022
Pages that enable donors to renew gift subscriptions and to manage gift subscriptions online have been added.
Monday, December 6, 2021
New this year: gift subscriptions to the Digital Edition of the Christian Science Quarterly Bible Lessons.
A gift provides full access to the Bible Lessons, including:
- Full audio recording of each lesson for downloading or streaming
- Easy reading on any mobile device
- Printable in multiple sizes for reading offline
- Easy click access to the Bible translations and expanded research from the Christian Science Sentinel’s Bible Lens
Gift subscriptions are available with a single payment of $130 for a year of inspiration—less than $3 a week.
Tuesday, February 16, 2021
Starting March 16, you will be required to log in to access the Bible Lessons. If you do not have a password set up, you will not be able to log in. We encourage you to try logging in to your account management page or resetting your password to continue accessing the Bible Lessons without interruption.
We are also offering assistance to those who would like to continue to access the Bible Lessons but are experiencing financial pressures. Please see our information page to learn more.
Thursday, December 3, 2020
- In the citation view, fixed a glitch where the navigation menu did not correctly highlight the selected section.
Monday, November 23, 2020
- Fixed a glitch that caused the long lesson title to overlap audio controls on some mobile devices.
Wednesday, November 4, 2020
- Added Print, Downloads, and Display buttons.
- Introduced two new views for printing and downloading (large font and one-section-per-page).
- Added Printer Options option to open browser’s print window.
- Introduced a Citation List view.
- Reduced number of clicks needed to download future lessons by having all accessible in the Downloads window.
- Added labels for “this week”, “last week”, and “next week” to Available Lessons in the menu. Selected lesson now stays highlighted in the menu, too.
- Enlarged the “play” button in the audio player.
Thursday, September 10, 2020
- Introduced a dark mode viewing option (Menu>Settings).
- Fixed the bug where the Responsive Reading was not displaying correctly with alternating bold verses in ePub and mobi files in Kindle apps and the Play Books app. Since Bible Lessons are prepared well in advance, this fix won't show up until the Nov 1, 2020 lesson.
Monday, August 17, 2020
- Fixed an issue so that users can now highlight lesson text while Research, Bibles, or In-Context tabs are open.
- Fixed a computer issue so that a screen flicker no longer occurs as users scroll through questions in the Help pages.
- Fixed a mobile issue with selecting Golden Text from the section navigator.
Thursday, July 16, 2020
- Fixed a mobile device issue so that when the screen orientation of the device changes, the web page no longer jumps back to the beginning of the lesson.
Monday, June 29, 2020
- Icon for adding quarterly.christianscience.com/lesson to smartphone home screens updated based on user feedback.
- Favicon for site updated to match new home screen icon.
Wednesday, June 10, 2020
- All Bible Lesson mp3 files updated to have the same Bible Lesson cover image. This was a response to several mp3 playing apps/devices not updating the cover image, so the image showed a date and subject for a lesson that was in the past.
