One of the best things about editing the Christian Science magazines is finding the perfect “home” for articles—the place in a print issue, or online, where a piece will speak to a receptive audience. And a big part of that is being able to tell whether a piece is best suited for the Christian Science Sentinel or The Christian Science Journal.
I remember thinking when I was growing up that the Journal tends to be more of a metaphysical “deep dive,” whereas the Sentinel is more topical and diverse—but that’s not exactly true.
In the end, it all comes back to the missions Mary Baker Eddy set for the two magazines, which she outlined in “Something in a name,” an editorial in the first issue of The Christian Science Monitor newspaper (see The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 353).
