Directory of Christian Science RSS Feeds and Podcasts

The links below allow you to subscribe for free to RSS feeds and Podcasts (see right column for details)

RSS Feeds - CSMonitor.com
	The Christian Science Monitor offers numerous RSS feeds including "Top Stories", "World", "USA", "Commentary", "The Home Forum", special sections, blogs, etc. Click here for a listing of the feeds and subscribe to your favorite topics. NOTE: "The Home Forum" RSS feed includes the daily article on Christian Science.
RSS Feeds - CSDirectory.com
	"Inspiration & Healing" Blog - dedicated to expressions of gratitude, health and hope… as expressed by testimonies of healing through Christian Science, poetry, prose and other pearls of inspiration shared by CSDirectory.com users. Click here to subscribe or copy this link into your News Aggregator (reader): feed://csdirectory.com/inspirationandhealing/?feed=rss2
	"Christian Science News" Blog - Keep up to the minute on Christian Science related news from around the world and be notified of site updates on the CSDirectory.com family of web sites. Click here to subscribe or copy this link into your News Aggregator (reader): feed://www.csdirectory.com/news/?feed=rss2
RSS Feeds - Spirituality.com
	spirituality.com | latest articles - Inspiration and practical spirituality for daily life, using the healing ideas of Christian Science (updated every Monday). Click here to subscribe or copy this link into your News Aggregator (reader): feed://feeds.feedburner.com/spirituality_latestarticles
	spirituality.com | Bible Beat - Explore the Bible's wealth of inspiration with articles highlighting both well-loved and little-known Scriptural stories (updated every other Monday). Click here to subscribe or copy this link into your News Aggregator (reader): feed://feeds.feedburner.com/spirituality_biblebeat
RSS Feeds - TMCYouth.com
	TMCYouth Christian Science RSS Feed - combines all of the TMCYouth RSS feeds (below) and podcast feeds Click here to subscribe or copy this link into your News Aggregator (reader): feed://feedblendr.com/rss/5076
	Healing Blogs Click here to subscribe or copy this link into your News Aggregator (reader): feed://www.tmcyouth.com/healing_blogs/feed/
	TMCYouth Articles Blog Click here to subscribe or copy this link into your News Aggregator (reader): feed://www.tmcyouth.com/inspire_articles/feed/
	Chaplains Corner Click here to subscribe or copy this link into your News Aggregator (reader): feed://www.tmcyouth.com/healing_chaplains_corner/feed/
	CS in the Press Click here to subscribe or copy this link into your News Aggregator (reader): feed://www.tmcyouth.com/church_cspress/feed/
	TMCYouth Spotlight Click here to subscribe or copy this link into your News Aggregator (reader): feed://www.tmcyouth.com/church_spotlight/feed/

Podcasts - Spirituality.com
	Audio events on spirituality.com - timely Q&A interviews with spiritual thinkers. Subscribe via iTunes or copy this link into your "podcatcher"   feed://feeds.feedburner.com/spirituality_eventpodcast
Podcasts - TMCYouth.com
	TMCYouth podcasts for youthful healers. combines podcast feeds for "Bible Alive" (inspiring audio and video podcasts from Christian Science lecturers, spirituality.com, and Sentinel Radio) and "University Life" (Christian Science lectures and talks that are being produced especially for college and university audiences.) Click here to subscribe to podcast or copy this link into your "podcatcher" feed://pod-serve.com/podcasts/feed/tmc-youth-podcast

RSS / Podcast 101
Part of our "Technology and Church" series

RSS Feeds

What is RSS?
Look for the symbol (left) to indicate a site with RSS feeds. RSS is a popular way to pull in news and information from across the Web. "Really Simply Syndication" allows web sites and blogs to push content to you easily - that is, when its published it comes to you directly. An RSS feed contains regularly updated headlines linking to Web content. In order to subscribe (FREE) to an RSS feed of interest, you must first have a "news aggregator" (or news reader).

What is a "news aggregator"?
A news aggregator is a program that allows you to access all the headlines you've subscribed to. This enables you to read a wide variety of content of interest to you all in one place (as opposed to jumping from site to site searching for what you want).

How do I subscribe to an RSS feed?
Go to one of the links below and follow the directions. Firefox Live Bookmarks saves directly to your Firefox web browser. Mac users: save directly to your Safari web browser "All RSS Feeds" bookmark.

Free News Aggregators:
There are many free news readers that are easy to use. Some of the most popular readers are listed below.

My Yahoo! News Reader
NewsGator
Pluck RSS Reader
Google Reader
Firefox Live Bookmarks

Podcasts

What is a podcast?
A podcast is a digital media file (usually audio and video), or a series of such files, that is distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds for playback on portable media players and personal computers. The name is derived from "pod" referring to the Apple’s portable media player, the iPod, and "cast" to the idea of broadcasting.

How can I listen to a podcast?
You can "subscribe" (FREE) to podcast feeds by submitting the feed address to an aggregator "podcatcher" (like iTunes - software that runs on the consumer's computer). When new "episodes" become available in the podcast they will be automatically downloaded to that user's computer. Unlike radio or streaming content on the web, podcasts are not real-time. The material is pre-recorded and users can check out the material at their leisure, offline.

How do I subscribe to a podcast?
1) Download the iTunes or JUICE "podcatcher" software onto your computer (Mac or PC).

Download iTunes (free) Click here »

Download JUICE (free) Click here »

2) copy the podcast feed code (example: feed://pod-serve.com/podcasts/feed/tmc-youth-podcast )

3) Open your iTunes or JUICE "podcatcher" software

a) for iTunes: pull down "ADVANCED" menu and click on "Subscribe to Podcast", then paste the feed code into the box which pops up.

b) for JUICE: pull down "TOOLS" menu and click on "Add a Feed...", then paste the feed code into the box which pops up and add a podcast title (like "Spirituality.com Live Chats")

Enjoy!

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Coming: watch for "How To" articles on creating your own RSS feeds and Podcasts for your church or organization.