Interviews

To paraphrase Shakespeare, there is nothing foreign, but thinking makes it so. To Bruce Fitzwater, there are no actual foreign cultures or languages, only those that we've not yet attempted to understand.

FOR 120 YEARS, READING ROOMS have presented Christian Science to their communities and sold products produced or distributed by The Christian Science Publishing Society. Today, there are about 1,500 of these rooms in more than 70 countries, most in the United States.

WHEN I TALKED RECENTLY WITH Christian Science practitioner and teacher BARBARA FIFE, I found it hard to imagine that this inspiring—and inspired—healer at one point in her life doubted that God even exists. Or as she tells it, "I remember thinking that if God did exist, He couldn't possibly know or care about me.

DAVE STEVENS FOUND HIS TRUE CALLING after a career in education and then a year traveling around Europe, as he says, ".

As the debate over the environment continues, interested parties on all sides of the question bring their thoughts and prayers to bear on the subject. The Journal does not take political positions on matters of public concern, but strives to offer spiritual perspectives.

Across from the shelf where the cookbooks sit in Heloísa Gelber Rivas's Boston kitchen, are a set of the real "cook" books— Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy, the Bible, concordances, and a Christian Science Hymnal. In fact, they're in every room of her condominium, an old habit from when Heloísa's late husband, Horacio, was First Reader at The Mother Church, and the couple lived in the First Reader's residence on Commonweath Avenue.

DON GRIFFITH REMEMBERS THE FIRST TIME HE HEALED SOMEONE. He was thirteen.

BEVERLY DEWINDT lives in Arcadia, California, a city near Los Angeles that's located in the San Gabriel Valley, at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains. She started out as a child performer and worked in the family restaurant business for a while.

SIMON WARD tells me he doesn't remember the precise moment he decided to become an archaeologist. Childhood found him drawn to historical sites during summer holidays, and growing up in London in a family of artists, he explored every corner of the great museums.

During the ten years that Keith Wommack played in his rock band, The Wommack Brothers Band, he never traveled without the Bible and the writings of Mary Baker Eddy. His band shared the stage with marquee performers such as Stevie Ray Vaughan, Elvis Costello, and Journey.