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A new focus on audio content
We’re so grateful for our readers’ and listeners’ love and support of Sentinel Radio, and want to share some upcoming changes that will take place in early 2012. These changes will offer local broadcast groups lower costs and new opportunities for reaching the public, as well as prepare The Christian Science Journal, Sentinel, and Herald (JSH) for the launch of the new subscription JSH Online edition.
To get a sense of the scope of these changes, you have to go back to November 2009, when over 70 broadcast groups from all over North America traveled to Boston to participate in a broadcast summit. Throughout the weekend these broadcast groups met with editors, publishers, and members of the Board of Trustees of The Christian Science Publishing Society (CSPS) in open discussions about Sentinel broadcast activity. They shared wonderful fruitage from their activities, along with explaining the challenges of rising costs, fewer appropriate broadcast stations, and the difficulty of quantifying the size of the real listening audience. In an effort to control costs, many of the groups had turned to non-radio alternatives such as an 800 phone line or other “dial up” services. CSPS shared similar concerns about the costs, scale, and the sustainability of the current broadcast activity. Everyone agreed that the Internet would play a growing role in the future.
By the end of the summit, it was clear that Sentinel Radio programming was perceived as being of the highest quality and was well loved, even though the broadcast model itself was not financially sustainable for either CSPS or the local broadcast groups. Everyone at the summit agreed that CSPS should seek out a new audio model that more thoughtfully embraced the use of the Internet to reach listeners.
Enjoy 1 free Sentinel article or audio program each month, including content from 1898 to today.
August 22, 2011 issue
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Letters
Anna Willis, Heidi Skok, Gary Duke, Barbara Sander, Linda Ross
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A fading concept
Ingrid Peschke, Managing Editor
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Healing: choosing an approach
Polly Castor
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Churches celebrate independence of South Sudan, pledge support of new nation
Fredrick Nzwili and ENI News
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Prayers for wildfires
Jan Keeler
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Walking in the light
By Karen Bailey
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Working for our ‘Father’s business’
By Kathryn Merrill
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God’s child
Craig Luedeman
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The new girl at school
By Jordan Jenkins
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The haircut
Gwyneth Wilson
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Valuing the arts
By Lyle Young
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The promise of eternal salvation
By Elise L. Moore
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Through the fire
By Victoria Gaines
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Heaven, hell, and salvation—in Bible terms
By Shirley Paulson
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Understanding Bell’s hell
By Kim Shippey, Senior Writer
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Talk about what you love
By Thomas Mitchinson
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A new focus on audio content
By John Sparkman
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Hearing and harmony restored
Lynn Mahoney
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‘The fire had no power’
Heidi Macari
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A mother prays for her family
Charlotte Kinney
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The power of one
The Editors