We believe this first issue of the Journal in its new format, with all the new features and design elements, captures a spirit of possibility and progress for our movement.
Our Leader loved both freshness and the stability of old values. She spoke of Christian Science as "a new-old religion." In her communications to The Christian Science Board of Directors as well as to the Editors of her periodicals, Mary Baker Eddy made it clear she expected progress and staying abreast of the times, as well as unchanging commitment to the pure Science of Christianity. It was this very commitment that produced the revolutionary newness which is Christian Science and the Church of Christ, Scientist.
As the section of the Journal called "The New Movement" reminds us, we are still new today. A spiritual reading of the signs of the times makes clear that thought which is breaking free worldwide from the dullness and finiteness of materialism is hungry for new spiritual ideas. Mrs. Eddy tells us, "The time for thinkers has come." Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. vii
