"Things move because of prayer," says Victor Westberg, who serves on both administrative boards of The First Church of Christ, Scientist—The Christian Science Board of Directors and the Board of Trustees of The Christian Science Publishing Society. Expanding on how he's been praying about the Monitor and its future, Mr. Westberg says, "We need to establish in thought what's already there, the infinite substance that comes from God, that never deteriorates. The Monitor is part of the Church that Mary Baker Eddy designed, a capstone. It's here to deliver to all humanity, undivided, the Science of being."
Don Adams, who also serves on the three-member Board of Trustees, sees the Monitor "spreading truth, liberty, and equality to everyone on earth." Mr. Adams says the Monitor shares a humanitarian objective with other journalistic enterprises—"to help the world and to bring light to things that need healing. So it puts us shoulder to shoulder with people of every denomination and of every culture and race." The Monitor, he explains, is "our connector. It keeps people from being isolated and concerned just with their own families and homes, and it connects everybody."
To the Trustees' chairman, Midge Campbell, the Monitor aims to be neither a voice of political liberalism or conservatism, but a catalyst for positive change. "A media report," Ms. Campbell says, "can either inflame, or it can transform. And I think the Monitor goes a long way in transforming public thought, leading it away from that which inflames, to that which brings new perspective and takes an issue to a higher level of discourse and discussion." She cites as an example of the Monitor's change-agent purpose, the recent series "Talking with the Enemy," about bridging the partisan divide in America, which Campbell says has received "tremendous public attention and accolades, and others wanting to reprint it."
