From the Editors January 1, 1990 ISSUE

Dear Reader

The Editors

A lot of interesting things cross an editor's desk in the course of the average week. Letters, manuscripts, accounts of healing, questions, suggestions, criticisms, and many other things. One of these "other things" is a brief item from "National and International Religion Report" that tells us Bill Moyers, the television commentator, is leaving the political beat and focusing on religious news. Seems that he thinks this is where the most significant stories will be over the next fifty years.

Talking with another journalist on another day, we were surprised to learn he was surprised that a weekly magazine like the Sentinel is made up of things that are written by average, everyday folks—not professional writers or religionists.

It is rather remarkable. But this is the way the Sentinel has been since its founding by Mary Baker Eddy. As a result, the magazine is rooted in people's lives, people who are making spiritual discoveries in their ordinary lives.

Kind of interesting, isn't it, when you think about ordinary lives and how the power and presence of God comes in? It makes a person's life a laboratory for spiritual discovery and research.

As the world goes, this all may seem pretty low-key, but where else than in individual lives is the force of a powerful religious redirection going to be first felt? A spiritual Christianity has an amazing capacity to reemerge and reassert itself wherever people want freedom and an understanding of God. The Sentinel family—contributors and readers—have an irreplaceable part in all of this. This first issue of the 1990s may be a good time to keep in sharp focus what the leaven of individual lives can mean to a world in need.

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