UPFRONT November 24, 2008 Issue

Quality journalism—anytime, anywhere

BILL DAWLEY, EDITOR

Many years before I'd even heard of Christian Science, really, and prior to my study and practice of the religion itself, I had an experience that brought me closer to this Science than I ever imagined it would.

I was taking the train back to Rhode Island after a weekend in New York. I don't even remember where or when I picked up a copy of The Christian Science Monitor. I sat in the smoking section of the trains that they had in those days and read the paper through on the way home. Just a few glances at the pages told me that I was reading a paper that engaged its readers with a quality that few other papers did or could.

I was particularly struck by the article on Christian Science, though I was a bit timid about it, I must admit. I didn't want to be sold a bill of goods about religion—about which I was pretty much of a skeptic in those days. But I found the article intriguing, and, as I remember, I cut it out and kept it for a long time.

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