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Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we鈥檝e always been transparent about that.
The church publishes the Monitor because it sees good journalism as vital to progress in the world. Since 1908, we鈥檝e aimed 鈥渢o injure no man, but to bless all mankind,鈥� as our founder, Mary Baker Eddy, put it.
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A tiny light 鈥� and trust 鈥� guided my swim through darkness
Kendra Nordin Beato
Staff editor
Yesterday, before the sun rose and the harvest supermoon hung low in the sky, I swam across Walden Pond. This was a new, disorienting experience. Measuring my progress against the silhouettes of distant trees was futile.聽
But my two companions and I had placed tiny lights inside the buoys secured around our waists. Their bobbing glow and the rhythmic pull and breath of my steady stroke gave me the reassurance 鈥� and the freedom 鈥� to keep moving through the inky darkness.聽
Today鈥檚 Monitor stories 鈥� spanning from security in Portland, Oregon, to negotiations in the West Bank, to a soup kitchen for seniors in Seoul, South Korea 鈥� also strive to illuminate paths forward.
