“Your job is to find what the world is trying to be.”
It’s a line from a poem entitled “Vocation” by the American poet William Stafford. The poem, which is unflinchingly frank about troubled family relations, describes the “dream the world is having about itself” and hints at glimpses that “tell something better about to happen.”
The mission to find what a troubled world “is trying to be” could also apply, in a compelling sense, to The Christian Science Monitor, the newspaper published by the Church that produces this Journal. Since the Monitor was founded in 1908, many have asked why a church would publish a newspaper—especially one that isn’t a mouthpiece for religious doctrine or partisan social and political ideology.
