From the Editors September 24, 2012 Issue

Not strictly for the birds

The Editors

In a commencement address given last year at Kenyon College, Ohio, Pulitzer prize-winning novelist Jonathan Franzen spoke enthusiastically about his recently discovered love of wild birds, and his concern especially to help protect migratory songbirds (see Farther Away, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux).

We suspect many Sentinel readers already have a deep love for birds. Jesus’ observation in Matthew 6:26 deserves to be quoted in full: “Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?”

And Sentinel founder Mary Baker Eddy embraced us all in her bird imagery when she wrote of Love’s sheltering wing: 

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