Renewal. Rebirth. New hope for rejuvenating our outlook, resolving old animosities, restarting stalled careers, reconstructing war-ravaged lands. For pushing the reset button on relationships, the economy, human rights, even life itself! All those re words give us such confidence that new beginnings are always possible—and they capture the expectations we all cherish for a new calendar year.
This Journal issue focuses on these expectations for renewal—and on how the Science of Christianity helps people fulfill them. It assures us that there’s nothing material or hope-against-hope about real renewal. It’s not like the Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon’s legendary search for a fountain of youth in Florida (a bogus story anyway!).
No, genuine renewal is an entirely spiritual process of waking up to our unbreakable connection with God. In his cover story “Renewal and Life’s Real Substance,” Charles Ferris explains how this happens (p. 26). “True substance is the right identification of what we are as the reflection of God—Mind, Love, and Spirit,” he writes. It’s realizing who we actually are as daughters and sons of God, and what our unending potential is.
