Interviews

Brooks Anderson's paintings, like all beautiful works of art, have a healing influence, because when people look at his paintings, they feel the influence of Soul, God. And they feel the presence of intelligence and principle and insight and mastery and control and creativity, which all come from one place, one omniscient power—Life.

LIKE MANY OF HIS FELLOW STUDENTS AT THE University of California, Berkeley, in the mid-1960s, Brian Talcott experienced an awakening. He realized that, rather than simply accept the status quo, he and his peers could use their speech and actions to help transform the world.

Thirty-one years ago, Marjorie Scherer pulled up roots in Idaho and replanted her family in Africa. She has been living there ever since.

During a routine examination in the seventh month of her second pregnancy, South Carolina resident Sherry Hyatt was told by her obstetrician that she was exhibiting symptoms of preeclampsia (also called toxemia)—a condition he said could be potentially fatal to both Sherry and her child. Because there is no known cure for preeclampsia, other than delivery of the baby, the doctor was very concerned, and wanted Sherry to spend the weekend in the hospital so he could monitor the condition—and deliver the baby early if necessary.

IMAGINE IT. YOU'RE A YOUNG parent juggling the demands of children, a spouse, and an active household.

THERE IS ANOTHER WAY OF PUTTING THINGS, SAYS KIATEZUA LUBANZADIO LUYALUKA, A CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TEACHER AND PRACTITIONER IN KINSHASA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO.  THERE IS A WAY OF PUTTING THINGS THAT ISN'T WESTERN—"A WAY OF PUTTING THINGS FOR AFRICANS.

THE CHILD who has opened the door conveys the news: "Mother isn't here. " But the caller, who has come to this home of a Christian Science practitioner in search of healing, isn't turned away empty-handed.

CONTRARY TO APPEARANCES, and startling as it may seem, we're not material beings and we were never born—we have always existed and always will. That's what Christian Science practitioner and teacher VICTOR WESTBERG realized at a young age, long before Christian Science crossed his path.

WHAT CAN A SINGLE BOOK ACCOMPLISH? Well, consider this: Publication in 16 languages as well as Braille, readers in over 130 countries, thousands of individual lives transformed—and still being transformed—more than a century after its initial printing. And yet, as significant as the global reach of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures has been in the past 130 years, "we've only seen a modest measure of its potential, its full healing power," says Ethel Baker, Manager of The Writings of Mary Baker Eddy and Christian Science Reading Room Activities.

AS A TWO-TIME PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTEE IN THE 1980s, leader of the first US business delegation to China, and former Ambassador and Special Advisor to the Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy, Gilbert A. Robinson has nearly seen and done it all in the world of government and diplomacy.