For
the past year, The Christian Science Board of Directors, as Publisher of Mary Baker Eddy's writings, has been considering the pivotal role of the Christian Science pastor—the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures—as well as the Manual of The Mother Church, Prose Works, Poems, and Christ and Christmas, and what can be done to make them more available to those most ready to value and use them.
Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent failure of the levee systems in the New Orleans area uncovered scenes of poverty that were as shocking to many in New Orleans as they were to the rest of the world.