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People love to keep journals that record their unfolding life experience. Previously, that meant a private record occasionally making it into print. More recently, the internet has meant that many journals are shared publicly in real time. 

This magazine is affectionately called “the Journal” by those familiar with it, and reading this issue gave me a new way to think about that. From cover to cover it’s the real time journal of a global movement actively engaged in caring. This issue’s articles tell of individuals caring for family, for a neighborhood, for fellow church members, and caring about all those suffering in the world. And it isn’t just hit and miss caring, says the article “Certainty versus probability.” It’s caring on the basis of understanding God’s nature and our spiritual existence under God’s government.

This kind of caring isn’t just kind, it’s powerful. It results in healing that holds up a standard for humanity. One of the healings recorded in this issue took place in a military setting. Others were seen by medical professionals. 

As “A Cause worth supporting” points out, humanity needs more of this kind of caring, and summarizes what kind it is. “It does more than give a neighbor a fish to eat, or even teach a neighbor how to fish. It teaches one’s neighbor where to fish—to find all health, supply, love, peace, and purpose in God, the source of all good. It meets the most basic of human needs: to know God’s allness and goodness.”

Tony Lobl
Associate Editor of Journal, Sentinel, Herald.