Interviews

When you meet IRMELA WIGGER, you're inevitably drawn in by the warmth that radiates from her clear blue eyes. When she speaks, you feel the sincerity and spiritual conviction that impel her words.

Gardens hold a special place for Christian Science practitioner and teacher George Millar.  Not just the one at his current Twickenham home on the river Thames, but one that stretches way back to his childhood in Australia.

Talk to Christian Science practitioner and teacher Colleen Douglass for only a few minutes and you quickly get a read on what keeps her life on track: her dedication to Christian Science. And her love for family.

Lyle Young learned about Christian Science in college. He was studying music at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, when he began to attend the weekly Christian Science Organization meetings held on campus.

The subject of the 1960s' pop hit "Ferry Cross the Mersey" still chugs across the Mersey River several times a day, just a short distance from Edna Watson's bungalow in Liverpool, England. Growing up in Yorkshire, Edna's father, a classical tenor, found Christian Science at a moment of great need.

Many people around the world first got to know Russ Gerber as the voice of Sentinel Radio. For some 15 years, every week Russ introduced and set the stage for the half-hour programs about spiritual healing that The Mother Church and sponsoring branch churches beamed around the world.

Once a mom—or "mum," as the British would say—always a mom. "Parenting is a 24/7 occupation that stretches ahead of us as far as we can see," JANE DICKINSON-SCOTT says with a wisdom born of raising six children.

Rob Gilbert looks for ways to help people. So after receiving a Masters of Theology in Biblical Studies from Boston University School of Theology, he joined the Army.

A Christian Scientist all of her life, and a native of Wisconsin, CONNIE CODDINGTON first advertised in the Journal as a Christian Science practitioner in 1983, soon after her first child was born. When her two daughters were in elementary school, Connie became a single mom.

Even when he was a trained biologist in Salzburg, Austria, ROBERT ENNEMOSER had a hunch there was a deeper dimension to life than one defined by matter. He moved on to the practice of homeopathy, and like Mary Baker Eddy, found that it glimpsed the fact there was more evidence of the mental influence than of medicine in healing.