Interviews

Recently, Luisella Jaques-Deraney , Managing Editor of Le Heraut de Christian Science, interviewed Mayal Tshiabuila , Democratic Republic of Congo . The voice of Mayal Tshiabuila , on the other end of the line, greets me warmly.

Jane Moran has raised, trained, and boarded horses for over 25 years. Jenny Sawyer , Journal Staff Editor, talked with Jane recently about her work with these animals.

Jean Hebenstreit is a Christian Science practitioner and teacher in Kansas City, Missouri. Her office is located in a high rise building overlooking Kansas City's Plaza district.

Inner calm is essential when one is facing a crisis. But where does calm — and the courage, compassion, and clarity that accompany it — come from? For people in the Bible, its origin wasn't personal and iffy, but universal and reliable.

Geoffrey Barratt is a Christian Science practitioner and teacher, who divides his time between New York City and Sydney, Australia. As a former Editor of the Journal and the other religious magazines produced by The Christian Science Publishing Society, he has written over 425 articles on spirituality and metaphysical issues.

"Could overcoming poverty become a bipartisan issue and a nonpartisan cause?" That's the question Jim Wallis, convener of Call to Renewal, tossed at his students to open the last session of his fall semester course "What's Faith Got To Do With It?—Activism, Spirituality and Social Change" at Harvard University's Institute of Politics in the John F. Kennedy School of Government.

The Journal spoke with the Clerk of The Mother Church, Mary Weldon Ridgway , about the continuing spiritual momentum that attendees felt following 2002 Annual Meeting & Conference and the vision for the 2003 Annual Meeting & Conference. What has been the effect of 2002 Annual Meeting & Conference, as the 6,000 attendees returned to their homes around the world? There's been an extraordinary effect! So many have expressed a new awareness of opportunities right in their own backyard along with a greater global sensitivity.

February is Black History Month in the US, and with that in mind, the Journal's Jenny Sawyer spoke with Gail Hansberry , who has for decades been involved in African and African American affairs. She served as executive director of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History in Washington, DC from December of 1990 through March of 1992.

Peter Ackerman is the chair of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict in Washington, DC. Dr.

Featured with Jennifer Foster on Jubal-ation is baritone Gregory Emanuel Rahming, soloist for First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Westport, Connecticut. Mr.