WELCOME March 25, 2002 Issue

Safe in the secret place

John Selover

THE 91st Psalm, represented on the cover of this week's Sentinel, has a centuries-long history of giving solace and protection from evil. Who has not sought its "secret place of the most High" as a shelter of safety and comfort? The love that pours from its verses is tangible. The power of its meaning rises, sometimes irresistibly, into a life teetering on the brink of fear—and draws it back into God's sheltering arms.

But with all this blessed shelter, the conflict between good and evil goes on in life and literature. Writers from Milton and Shakespeare to Rand and Helprin have built plot after plot around the good/evil contest. Is evil forever? Is there relief? Is there any hope? Or do I just avoid or cope?

This Sentinel is devoted to relief and hope. Writers this week report, from a spiritual perspective, on their efforts to move from avoid/cope to hope and healing. Scott Baldauf, South Asian correspondent for the The Christian Science Monitor, begins this issue with his sensitive and perceptive approach to covering an explosive good/evil conflict in Afghanistan. Elise Moore, with Dorothy's Toto, pulls back the curtain from an evil called animal magnetism. And the evil called disease is challenged and healed in Betty Jenks's account of her husband's recovery from the evil of severe migraine headaches.

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