March 4, 2002
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From the Editors
I Thought To Myself,
"The churches in New York are becoming like convenience stores.
Thank you so much for sharing with your readers in the February 4 issue, the heartwarming account of Dr.
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Religious pluralism
is a fact of American life, according to a number of religion writers.
The day after the September 11 attacks propelled St. Paul's Chapel into the role of nonstop ministry at the site of the World Trade Center, someone asked Rev. Lyndon Harris when they would "go back to being a church." But there was no going back. St. Paul's had never before been so alive to the demands of the day.
Mary Ridgway sees the church she works to direct as designed to be a "24/7 activity"—one in which members are there to give, as well as to get.
The president of New York's Union Theological Seminary says he is "irrevocably Christian." But Dr. Joseph Hough is also quick to qualify. "I'll be a better Christian," he says, "if I'll really give credit and acknowledge that the God I worship is large enough to be seen in a lot of ways."
In anticipation of the opening of The Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity later this year, the Sentinel regularly prints excerpts from the collections of previously unpublished writings.
I spent a lot of time studying "the scientific statement of being."
People are having their own sober second thoughts about off-loading the responsibility for their well-being.
