Editorials

MY FLIGHT OUT of New York had been slightly delayed, but I made my connection in Chicago with ease. In fact, when I got to the gate of my connecting flight they had just started to board, and I could walk right on into the airplane.

A HOSTILE TAKEOVER most often refers to one company taking over another against its will. It's a good description of a lot that happens outside the business world, too.

EVERY INDIVIDUAL HAS A PURPOSE TO FULFILL. This is true both in terms of daily life as well as an eternal reason for being.

THIS QUESTION HAS COME UP at nearly every town meeting the Board of Directors has held over the last five years with Christian Scientists around the world: Where do you see our Church 50 years from now? Sometimes you hear concern in the questioner's voice. Sometimes you see pencils poised for note-taking, as if people expect to hear about an elaborate program for Church expansion.

CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS ARE WELL AWARE that Mary Baker Eddy expected her Church to embrace the world. Her heart of pure love spoke plainly when she wrote, ".

TODAY'S TECHNOLOGY HAS opened the door for communication in unprecedented ways. We talk more to each other than ever before.

IN 1822 A YOUNG British woman named Charlotte Elliott met a famous Swiss minister at the home of friends. The Reverend Henri Cesar Malan asked her if she were a Christian.

As The Christmas season draws near, millions of people will make earnest efforts to focus on the saving Christ. Some will build creches.

IT'S NOT HARD to find grim predictions about the future of mainline Christianity in Northern Hemisphere countries. Sociologist George Barna says that the US is awash with former churchgoers who refuse to be tied down to a single denomination (see Revolution, Carol Stream, Illinois: Tyndale House, 2005).

IT'S BUSY, THIS 21ST CENTURY. It's a technologist's dream.