Providing Knowledge and Understanding

Christa Case Bryant recently became editor of the Christian Science Monitor. Her first editorial reminded me of the original purpose of the daily newspaper, which was founded in 1908. The newspaper became a weekly news magazine a few years back, and maintains its daily presence by way of the internet. At the turn of the last century, our country was being gutted by robber barons, and yellow journalism was rampant. No one knew what to believe and propaganda ruled the day. Now, as then, there’s a great hunger for journalism to speak the truth. As the new editor states: “Our goal is not to tell you what to think, but to give you the essential knowledge and understanding you need to come to your own well-reasoned views.” It will carry on its mission, as Mary Baker Eddy stated in the first issue: “The object of the Monitor is to injure no man, but to bless all mankind.” For more information, please visit their website.

“Smart journalism is allowable, nay, it is commendable; but the public cannot swallow reports of American affairs from a surly censor ventilating his lofty scorn of the sects, or societies, of a nation that perhaps he has never visited.”
Mary Baker Eddy - Miscellaneous Writings 297:10-14

“As we give thanks, the world unites with us and happily accepts our holy thoughts, which Heaven has corrected and made pure. Now has our ministry begun at last, to carry round the world the joyous news that truth has no illusions, and the peace of God, through us, belongs to everyone.”
A Course in Miracles W-151.17:2-3