Welcome

There's a wonderful family feeling about this month's Journal. It's full of the discovery that comes from realizing we're all the sons and daughters of one Mother and Father.

The Staff of The Christian Science Journal welcomes you to this special focus issue. Our writers, editors, and artists have prepared it with love and gratitude in their hearts for Mary Baker Eddy—the woman who gave Christian Science to humanity and wrote Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

One of my most treasured childhood memories is that of sitting with my older sister on the steps outside the Ida Williams branch of the Atlanta Public Library, as we waited for our mother to pick us up. My sister taught me how to read on those steps.

Earthquake. Terrorist attack.

Shortly after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, D. C.

Joseph, according to the Bible , wasn't biologically involved in the conception and birth of Jesus. So, on the surface, that might stamp him as irrelevant in the birth and life of Jesus.

It was one of the first genuinely cold days in New York. My friend and I had walked from our hotel in midtown Manhattan down the length of Central Park to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, then had dinner in an Italian restaurant.

The big apple at Christmas. Shimmering lights.

As this issue went to press, my e-mail server repeated an observation many of us had been making: We are changed. It's true.

This year, the United States will celebrate Thanksgiving on November 22. The November Journal was already on its way to press when the tragic events of September 11 occurred.