The Reading Room CLE has established a nonprofit bookstore in the Kamm’s Corners neighborhood of Cleveland, after the organization had operated virtually over the last seven years. The bookstore, at ...

The Reading Room allows members to just sit and wait to go vote without worrying about whip-counts, fundraising events or what’s next on their overcommitted agendas.

They think reading the room means stepping back. Like being a fly on the wall. But that’s not where influence lives. You don’t belong on the wall. You belong in the center. Present. Grounded.

The Naples reading room, which opened in the 1960s, had been paying $790 per month in an area where rents went as high as $3,000 per month for a similar-size space.

It will move from Pine Street to the Christian Science building at 130 N. Monroe Ave. within the next five months. The reading room has occupied three different storefronts, all in the same block ...

1 of 2 | Mike Van Vleck, left, and Gail Dowdle talk while volunteering at the Christian Science Reading Room in downtown Overland Park, Kans., Friday, March... (Kit Doyle/Religion News Service via AP) ...