JSH-Online: More on the way

Have you ever had something almost overnight change the way you do something? Something which becomes so natural and helpful that you can’t imagine you ever did without it? For thousands of our online readers, JSH-Online has become that “something.”

Just 18 months after JSH-Online was introduced, it has served over 15 million page views, and welcomed over 100,000 visitors who have come to read articles that were shared with them using e-mail, Facebook, or Twitter by individual JSH-Online readers. Today there are more articles and testimonies from The Christian Science Journal, Sentinel, and Herald accessible to read and available to share than ever before. This progress is the result of Christian Scientists worldwide bearing witness to healing, and sharing Christian Science.

As publishers, we continually ask: How do the print editions of the Journal, Sentinel, and Herald best combine with JSH-Online to support effectively our readers’ growth in Christian Science? And the answer continues to be: to “put on record,” “hold guard over,” and “proclaim the universal activity and availability of Truth” (see Mary Baker Eddy, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 353 ). This activity embraces the Word and expresses the spirit of Christian Science—quenching the thirst of our readers.

To meet the desire for greater access to Publishing Society content in a single subscription, JSH-Online is introducing a number of new features at the end of September.

First, we will expand the Sentinel Radio archive to include all programs from 1987–2011. 

Second, a new audio edition of The Christian Science Journal and Sentinel will be available to JSH-Online subscribers. This will include streaming audio of all Journal and Sentinel print edition articles (beginning with the January 2013 issues), most of them read by the individuals who wrote them.

A third, powerful addition is The Christian Science Monitor’s Daily News Briefing as part of JSH-Online. This window into the Monitor’s editorial room gives our subscribers a daily look into what the editors see as the pressing world issues that need our metaphysical support. 

Fourth, more curated content is being added, providing online access to collections—including over 600 previously published pamphlets, as well as numerous special editions and anthologies published by the Publishing Society since 1888.

Finally, on October 1 of this year, JSH-Online reaches the end of its 18-month introductory subscription period, and the standard auto-renew price for JSH-Online of $24 per month ($19 per month with any print edition subscription to the Journal, Sentinel, or Herald) will go into effect. We thank all of our subscribers to the print and online editions of the Journal, Sentinel, and Herald for your prayers, generosity, and desire to support and to assure that The Christian Science Publishing Society continues its progress toward financial sustainability.