The March 1996 issue of The Christian Science Journal, and the Annual Meeting report carried in the July 1996 issue, focused on the healing mission, purpose, focus, and current priorities of the Church of Christ, Scientist. As a continuing report on how the Church is going forward in this work, senior managers at The Mother Church have been invited to write for the Journal a brief account of how workers in their area of activity are approaching these goals. This month, David Cook, Editor of The Christian Science Monitor, reports on the newspaper's efforts to better fulfill its founding mission and to serve a wider audience.
Generations of workers have sought to demonstrate a healing approach to journalism in obedience to Mary Baker Eddy's call for The Christian Science Monitor "to injure no man, but to bless all mankind." The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 353.
The adoption of a formal statement of mission, purpose, focuses, and objectives for the Church has helped Monitor staffers target our efforts. It has given us an opportunity to review our progress in helping the Church fulfill its mission "to commemorate the word and works of our Master, which should reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing." Mary Baker Eddy, Manual of The Mother Church, p. 17.
