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Interviews

Conversations with experienced Christian Scientists on topics of interest.

FORWARD PRAYER

KARIM AJANIA, who grew up in Nairobi, Kenya, believes that Christianly scientific prayer has the capacity to free one from fear and resentment. "And such prayer redefines how each of us can help to change the world," says Mr.

LIGHT NOT LIMITS

Currently pursuing a doctorate in physics at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, ESMERALDA YITAMBEN grew up in Cameroon, Central Africa. She began attending a Christian Science Sunday school at the age of seven, shortly after her mother read Science and Health and joined a neighborhood Christian Science branch church.

THINK BIG

I taxied over to the Upper East Side of New York City to meet with RUTH BARRATT, a visual and concept consultant. Her numerous creative projects range from an avant-garde Manhattan bistro to conceptualization of a theme village at Epcot® in Disney World.

GLOBAL CARE

A person's life is sometimes compared to a jigsaw puzzle. Fine, if God is understood to be the designer.

FROM MATTER TO SPIRIT


STAYING ALOFT

When Elise Moore was six years old, she knew what she wanted to be when she grew up. As she tells it, "I remember sitting on the curb, talking to my friend, saying I wanted to be a Christian Science practitioner like my aunt.

A call to the chaplaincy

Jeffrey Hildner talks with Colonel (Ret. ) Janet Horton, Endorser of Christian Science for the Mother Church Military chaplains accompany US forces wherever they go.

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Brooks Anderson's paintings, like all beautiful works of art, have a healing influence, because when people look at his paintings, they feel the influence of Soul, God. And they feel the presence of intelligence and principle and insight and mastery and control and creativity, which all come from one place, one omniscient power—Life.

SPIRITUAL ACTIVISM

LIKE MANY OF HIS FELLOW STUDENTS AT THE University of California, Berkeley, in the mid-1960s, Brian Talcott experienced an awakening. He realized that, rather than simply accept the status quo, he and his peers could use their speech and actions to help transform the world.

HIGHER LOVE

Thirty-one years ago, Marjorie Scherer pulled up roots in Idaho and replanted her family in Africa. She has been living there ever since.