Interviews

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.

Little did Candace du Mars know that her life was about to change—forever—the day her little girl, Alice, a kindergartner at the time, came home after visiting a friend's Sunday School. Alice exclaimed that she'd found a new Sunday School, and Candace—or Candy as her friends call her—picked up on her daughter's enthusiasm and started tagging along to church.

AND SEEING THE MULTITUDES, HE WENT UP INTO A MOUNTAIN: AND WHEN HE WAS SET, HIS DISCIPLES CAME UNTO HIM: AND HE OPENED HIS MOUTH, AND TAUGHT THEM, SAYING, TAKE NO THOUGHT FOR YOUR LIFE, WHAT YE SHALL EAT, OR WHAT YE SHALL DRINK. IS NOT THE LIFE MORE THAN MEAT, AND THE BODY THAN RAIMENT?

The flyleaf of Walt Rodgers' well-worn Science and Health reads like a world history lesson. Some sample entries give a scope of when he paused for a spiritual truth during his many travels: "June 1987, The Kremlin".

People throughout the world long to see the positive impact their prayers have on humanity. When the Berlin wall fell, accounts abounded of people around the globe who had been praying to see the end to that human suffering and bondage.