If you’re looking for bran muffin journalism, you can subscribe to the Monitor for $15. We’re about kicking down the door of thought everywhere and saying, “You are bigger and more capable than you realize.
We have a mission beyond circulation, we want to bridge divides. We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people. The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in. We’re the bran muffin of journalism.īut you know what? We change lives. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.” My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. “Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. Everyone is capable of discerning God’s inspiration, after all!Ībout a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”: Rather, I had a deep desire to glorify God and see evidence of Mind’s presence – not only for me, but for my classmates and professor, too. My focus was no longer about my grade specifically.
I realized that the divine Mind is always there to guide us, direct us, and supply us with the ideas needed to help others as well as ourselves. He is the Mind – with a capital “M” – that knows, creates, and governs all its spiritual creation. It was not me, or the professor, but God alone that had the intelligence that was needed. That morning I caught a glimpse of what it means that there is only one true Mind, which we all inherently reflect. It was through Mind that Jesus was able to heal and help so many: He was listening to the divine intelligence that reveals the spiritual fact of God’s goodness and care, in any situation. I realized that everyone has the same Mind because it is the one true Mind, God. I remembered a line in the Bible that says, “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus” ( Philippians 2:5). Not about fluid mechanics, but about God’s universe and my place in it. I wanted a deeper, more spiritual perspective of the situation, so I asked God what I needed to know. It was a great time to commune with God, which has always been a regular practice of mine – especially when I feel stuck. It was early morning, and few people were awake. Finally, I shut my books and went for a walk around campus. I was studying hard but just wasn’t getting the material. What really caught my attention was the idea that intelligence is an unlimited source readily available to all of us, right now.Įasy for him to say! As the final approached, I got more and more concerned. Not in the sense of being miraculous or limited to just one or two large-brained people. intelligence really is a superpower!” I thought. “Omni” is Latin for “all,” so I thought about intelligence as unending, always present, and supremely powerful. It says: “Intelligence is omniscience, omnipresence, and omnipotence” ( p. And recently a statement on intelligence that I read in a favorite book – “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,” by Mary Baker Eddy – got me thinking. Of course, comic books are not all that we read! We also do serious reading. But the desire for super intelligence is pretty consistent. Would we rather be super strong or intelligent? Fly or be invisible? Or how about being able to burst into flames like the Human Torch or stretch like Reed Richards?Īnswers vary depending on the mood or what happened that day at school. Strange, and Superman.īecause of this, many of our dinnertime conversations revolve around our most desired superpower. My husband has hundreds of issues of “Thor,” “Spider-Man,” and “The Fantastic Four.” He often regales us with stories of The Hulk, Dr.
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