Conversations with experienced Christian Scientists on topics of interest.
Interviews
There’s a modest but fresh spirit evident at The Mother Church in Boston and among its members around the world. You might call it a spirit of pioneering, discovering new paths to bless the world with scientific Christianity.
By the time Margarita Thatcher arrived in the United States at age 16 she had acquired impressive language skills. Born in Switzerland and raised primarily in Argentina, she spoke four languages fluently—French, German, Spanish, and English.
We’ve probably all been there. We’re reading the Bible and we ask: How does this relate to my life? If this is the Word of God, shouldn’t it mean something to me? Christian Science practitioner and teacher Barbara Pettis has asked this question—and has come to see how the Bible is actually urgently needed.
No, he isn’t a skydiver. Or a foreign agent.
Almost 20 years ago, Janet Clements began “modestly” in the Christian Science healing practice, setting aside several hours a day to pray for the world—for those who were homeless, for children who were abused, for people who were ill, and for those at war. “I embraced the world in Christly love, until I had a sense of peace,” Janet says.
The garden that was once her childhood playground is today what one might call Anne-Françoise Bouffé’s “prayground. ” She grew up in Clamart, just a few miles outside Paris, France.
During her college years, JUDY WOLFF witnessed a dramatic Christian Science healing of her mother from the late stages of a lung disease that had afflicted her intermittently since childhood. That healing inspired Judy to better know and serve God.
Quiet walks in the English countryside. Reading (most recently, a book about Jesus—in French).
Jim Thurman’s lifelong love of photography reaches far back to a Florida middle school. There he joined a camera club, and with the help of his Kodak Pony 828, he trained his eye on anything that moved.
It wasn’t an easy leap. After four years as a professional accountant with Texas & Northern Railway Company, Georgia Bulloch made the decision to be a stay-at-home mom.