The Christian Science Journal has been published since 1883. Its sister publications, the Christian Science Sentinel and The Herald of Christian Science, have been published since 1898 and 1903, respectively. From their launch, these three magazines, together with The Christian Science Monitor, which was founded in 1908, have fulfilled without interruption the special mission that Mary Baker Eddy assigned to them (see the box, "Something in a Name," on page 42). They have extended to "honest seekers for Truth" Science and Health, p. xii. the practical, life-transforming and healing message of Mrs. Eddy's book, Science and Health.
But just who are these magazines written for? At the 2002 Annual Meeting & Conference in Boston last June, Editor of the periodicals, and her colleagues Senior Managing Editor of print and broadcast, and Managing Editor of broadcasting, shed light on this fundamental question. And they did so in the context of the dramatic thoughtshift triggered by the events in the United States of September 11, 2001. Here are excerpts from that workshop.
Mary Trammell (Trinka): September 11 changed so much in the whole world. It changed the Christian Science periodicals, too. And it changed them, I feel, for the better. It pulled out the best in all of us. Bill, how do you remember that morning of September 11, and what happened then?
