Interviews

FOR SOME COMPOSERS, CHOREOGRAPHERS, and painters, a composition can be launched by the sparest of ideas—a phrase of a few tones, a rhythm of lines on a city street, or a surprising color combination in a wildflower. Some artists acknowledge that they're simply taking dictation from an all-creative divine intelligence.

FORMER EDITOR of the Journal, Allison "Skip" Phinney, a Christian Science practitioner and teacher in Boston, talks about what's on his mind.

I enter Estrella Romero's sunny kitchen the morning of our interview as she's busily slicing tomatoes and plopping them into a blender. "Te gusta?" [Do you like it?] she asks me, holding up a clove of garlic before adding it to the other ingredients.

Tell people the truth, says Martin Sirota , a Christian Science teacher and practitioner in New York City. He doesn't care if they agree with him.

If I had to describe ANN STEWART with only one word? How about adventurer. For example, when I mentioned to one of her Christian Science students that I had an upcoming interview with Ann, her student said, "Well, she definitely encourages us to get in and swim rather than sit by the side of the pool and talk about it!" That quality of really living —of grabbing life and taking it all in—rather than just thinking or hypothesizing about life's deepest questions informs just about everything Ann does.

Qatar, a thriving country slightly smaller than Connecticut is tucked in the middle of the Persian Gulf region, and is home to ALEKH GREWAL and his wife, Farida, and their two daughters, Emma (14) and Abigail (12). Mr.

One of the biggest changes in business over the past decade has been the availability of the worldwide Internet and the emergence of the flexible office, notes businesswoman CADI NONES. As President and CEO of Arcadia LLC—a global management consulting company Ms.

A native of Oklahoma, William (Bill) Ansley moved to Topeka, Kansas, almost 40 years ago, after he retired as head of the financial division for the International Paper Company—Long Bell Division. From the time he was a teenager, he knew he wanted to devote himself to the healing practice of Christian Science.

Fujiko Signs is one serious spiritual pioneer, just not the dour missionary kind. She laughs when asked what it's like being a Christian Scientist in the religiously diverse "frontier Far East.

The Bible and Science and Health go together like two sides of a coin. Mary Baker Eddy ordained these two unique books pastor over The Mother Church.