Editorial January 30, 1989 Issue

"High-level" conversations

Ann Kenrick

My flight companion, as I headed back to Boston, was a university professor who had lived in that city for many years. After telling me about some of his favorite things in the city he loved, he wanted to know what brought me to the United States.

I told him something of my work with the Christian Science magazines, and he asked what subjects we were covering. I shared a current Sentinel with him, which had several articles on the subject of "Renewal." He was particularly interested in this, as he was teaching a course on urban renewal.

He knew something of Christian Science through friends and had some knowledge of Mary Baker Eddy, who founded the Christian Science movement. He gave her full credit for having broken new ground as a religious thinker, but what, he asked, had made the Church of Christ, Scientist, flourish for over a hundred years?

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