Interviews

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.

Helping others. That theme runs throughout the life and work of Christian Science practitioner and teacher ABIGAIL MACKAY.

Actor ROBERT DUVALL talks about faith, the power of film to inspire—and how he wouldn't be able to live without Christian Science. Spend any time at all with Robert Duvall and you'll learn that Christian Science shaped him growing up and continues to shape him today.

SHE COMES BY HER LANGUAGES EASILY . An early childhood in Geneva, Switzerland, meant CHRISTIANE WEST LITTLE spoke French.

Start it at once. The Cause demands it.