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Finding a home of one鈥檚 own is increasingly challenging for many, as illustrated in today鈥檚 stories on housing affordability from the American South and South Korea.

The founder of this newspaper, Mary Baker Eddy, was no stranger to such challenges. She moved many times early in her career as a religious pioneer before eventually owning a gracious home.

Those experiences shaped a sense of home as an idea more than a place 鈥� 鈥渁 foretaste of heaven,鈥� she once wrote. That set the bar high for her ideal of journalism, too, reflected in the tagline she approved for the Monitor: 鈥淎 Newspaper for the Home.鈥�