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Why did Mary Baker Eddy, who founded the Christian Science Church,  establish a secular international newspaper, The Christian Science Monitor? Why would a religious leader also have a purpose for news and information? As a staff editor for the Monitor, it’s a question I have thought about a lot. Today’s news environment is constant and aggressive.

When I was growing up, it was an analog world.   If one had to express this concept of analog in philosophical terms, I guess the best way would be to describe it as a gray area.

It is reasonable that the Discoverer of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, would hold glorious views of her discovery. In fact, she valued it beyond every other body of concepts on earth.

In the Preface of Science and Health, Mary Baker Eddy referred lovingly to her early compositions on Scripture as “.

I grew up in Latin America, in a traditional religion where many issues that aroused my curiosity were shrouded in mystery. When I read Science and Health for the first time and discovered the answers there to all the questions I’d had for years, I felt I had found something very special, where logic prevailed.

What I find outstanding about Mary Baker Eddy is her unselfishness. I see it in her writings, in her autobiography, Retrospection and Introspection, and in her life story as written by others.

Mary Baker Eddy writes, “Suns and planets teach grand lessons” ( Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures , p. 240 ).

And we solemnly promise to watch, and pray for that Mind to be in us which was also in Christ Jesus; to do unto others as we would have them do unto us; and to be merciful, just, and pure.   Sixth tenet of Christian Science, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p.

“And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment: for she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole. But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole.

The phrase, “God gave man dominion,” is one I hear often at Christian Science Wednesday evening testimony meetings. It is from the Bible: “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth” ( Gen.