Interviews

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.

The resume reads wide. Stints as an actress, organic gardener, drummer.

Baseball catcher and comic philosopher Yogi Berra once quipped, "When you come to a fork in the road, take it. " Brad Jones came to a fork in the road about 35 years ago.

Feeding people has been a longtime passion for Rebecca Odegaard. While a young mom in London, she took an intensive yearlong cooking class at Prue Leith's Cookery School.

"I think I was a hard sell. I had very little interest in Christian Science.