Interviews

IMAGINE IT. YOU'RE A YOUNG parent juggling the demands of children, a spouse, and an active household.

THERE IS ANOTHER WAY OF PUTTING THINGS, SAYS KIATEZUA LUBANZADIO LUYALUKA, A CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TEACHER AND PRACTITIONER IN KINSHASA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO.  THERE IS A WAY OF PUTTING THINGS THAT ISN'T WESTERN—"A WAY OF PUTTING THINGS FOR AFRICANS.

THE CHILD who has opened the door conveys the news: "Mother isn't here. " But the caller, who has come to this home of a Christian Science practitioner in search of healing, isn't turned away empty-handed.

CONTRARY TO APPEARANCES, and startling as it may seem, we're not material beings and we were never born—we have always existed and always will. That's what Christian Science practitioner and teacher VICTOR WESTBERG realized at a young age, long before Christian Science crossed his path.

WHAT CAN A SINGLE BOOK ACCOMPLISH? Well, consider this: Publication in 16 languages as well as Braille, readers in over 130 countries, thousands of individual lives transformed—and still being transformed—more than a century after its initial printing. And yet, as significant as the global reach of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures has been in the past 130 years, "we've only seen a modest measure of its potential, its full healing power," says Ethel Baker, Manager of The Writings of Mary Baker Eddy and Christian Science Reading Room Activities.

AS A TWO-TIME PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTEE IN THE 1980s, leader of the first US business delegation to China, and former Ambassador and Special Advisor to the Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy, Gilbert A. Robinson has nearly seen and done it all in the world of government and diplomacy.

You could say that Timothy MacDonald 's initial thoughts of service were launched with his 13-year stint as a United States Navy officer, begun during the Vietnam conflict. He has since served the public as a Christian Science practitioner and teacher for many years, plus a three-year term as First Reader of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston.

It shall be the duty of the Committee on Publication to correct in a Christian manner impositions on the public in regard to Christian Science, injustices done Mrs. Eddy or members of this Church by the daily press, by periodicals or circulated literature of any sort.

How do you write a book? If you've Andrew Clements , you know the "how" begins with looking for the story in a character, an idea, a situation, or a setting. And then it involves picking up your frindle and starting to.

A young college student flunking out of classes, on drugs, in the middle of a marriage falling apart, contemplating suicide. Doesn't sound like a bright future ahead.