Welcome
I would like to say I was deep in prayer, but I probably wasn't, as I strolled along Broadway through the Upper West Side of Manhattan. A young man, lurching unsteadily, approached me.
Fear and anxiety, according to the news media, are an ongoing part of the landscape as people deal with terrorism and crime. But the writers in this issue's Frontlines section don't agree.
Many years ago I was on a backpacking trip with a friend in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. It had been a very dry summer, even in that green place, and we began to run out of water.
As a Massachusetts politician used to say, "All politics is local," and that's often true for individual finances, too. Whether one lives in Japan, Brazil, Kenya, Germany, or North America, one quickly finds that the global economy is connected to the grocery store and job markets at home.
Illumination is transforming. Some years ago while I was camping at Mont-Tremblant Provincial Park in Quebec, Canada, I was lifted above the mundane routine of camping as beams of sunlight burned off layers of fog and progressively revealed a breath-taking mountain and forest panorama.
" You never stop being a parent," my mother said to me recently. "You never stop praying for your children, praying they're safe.
Power. It's a word that's used in many different contexts—powerful car engines, powerful weapons, powerful people.
As I listened —with possibly millions of other people—to the accounts of the space shuttle Columbia's last flight, my first thoughts were with the astronauts and their families. But I also thought of a friend in Palestine, Texas, where news reports said debris had fallen.
This year many people are celebrating the centennial of the Wright brothers' first airplane flight on the sands near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in the United States. But this month marks another centennial—that of our sister publication, The Herald of Christian Science, which is now published in twelve different languages.
On paper it looked simple . An interfaith organization in Nashville, Tennessee, decided to plan a "Women in World Religions" conference.