Interviews

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.

“I can’t begin to tell you how many times I was on my knees asking, ‘Father, what is your plan for your beloved child?’ ” —says Diane Marrapodi about the recent years she spent taking care of her parents. A trained Christian Science nurse before becoming a Christian Science practitioner and teacher, Diane offers a special perspective on caring for people who might find themselves at the threshold of passing on from human experience.

Long before cellphones, PAM DEBOLT pumped a dime into the pay phone at her high school in Stockton, California, and called her mom between classes. The two were close, so checking in a couple of times a week fell into an easy rhythm.

He had a corporate job, with a long commute to and from Chicago’s Loop, and plenty of satisfying church and other volunteer work on the weekends. But Ron Mangelsdorf had one over-arching desire: “to keep my thought open to any way in which I could serve God.

When I called Al Carnesciali recently, the first thing I asked him was, “Where are you?”  I knew he was in California, but not where exactly. And Al said, “I’m in San Juan Capistrano, a couple of miles from the ocean.

September 2010.  Spring is in the air—in Australia, that is—and daffodils, bluebells, and peach blossoms color the landscape outside Beverley Beddoes-Mills’s home in the Blue Mountains overlooking Sydney.

Replace fear, worry, and doubt with trust in divine Principle: God. Because when we do, as Christian Science teacher and practitioner Jack Hubbell has learned, the unpredictable highway of life opens up in wonderful ways—ways full of opportunities and blessings for ourselves and others.

The transition from Sunday School to church can seem like a big step. One Sunday, you’re discussing the Christian Science Bible Lesson with your Sunday School teacher, and the next, you’re listening to it with the congregation in church.