Interviews

This month the Journal profiles another new Christian Science teacher—Steven Salt, from Bexley, Ohio. Steven graduated from the Normal class of 2006.

This coming November will mark one year since the violent terrorist attacks took place in Mumbai, India. Journal Senior Writer Joan Taylor recently asked Jer Master, a Christian Science practitioner and teacher based in Mumbai, to shed light on praying about the dark thoughts behind terrorism, hatred, and fear.

You know how going on a trip can change you? You get rewired, reshaped, reprogrammed. As if you've hit the reset button on your internal computer.

JONI OVERTON-JUNG'S WEBSITE SPILLS OUT A message from Dante in bold black letters that flow like a river from the horizon: "Infinite goodness has such wide arms. " Joni has felt the tender embrace of those wide arms.

As a working artist and lifelong Christian Scientist, DEANNA MARSH has found countless opportunities to bring her spiritual perspective intimately into the creative process. The parents of two adolescent daughters, Deanna and her husband, Jonathan, live in Auburn, California, a small town nestled in the Sierra foothills.

On a spectacular summer day, hang gliders were happily taking off from a mountaintop in the German Alps. MICHAEL PABST, who was in his early 20s at the time, stepped forward for his turn.

Steve Lyons has more than twenty years of experience under his belt litigating major civil and criminal cases, and served as counsel on a number of occasions for The First Church of Christ, Scientist. He graduated from Northeastern University, attended the Sloan School of Management at MIT, graduated from Northeastern Law School, and is a founding member of the law firm Klieman, Lyons, Schindler & Gross in Boston.

In January 1977, VIRGINIA HARRIS was in a serious car accident. The ER doctors didn't think she'd survive the injuries.

Throughout his life, Christian Science practitioner and teacher Michael Seek has taken an active interest in world affairs—from politics to economics to sports. At an age when other kids were reading fairy tales, he was reading articles in The Christian Science Monitor, which his mother had translated into German for him.

WESTEN MUNTAIN NEVER ASPIRED to become an artist. "Smart people," she jokes, "take one look at a career in the visual arts and run the other way!" Ever since Westen picked up the French horn in fifth grade, she thought she would become a musician.