Interviews

You could say that Timothy MacDonald 's initial thoughts of service were launched with his 13-year stint as a United States Navy officer, begun during the Vietnam conflict. He has since served the public as a Christian Science practitioner and teacher for many years, plus a three-year term as First Reader of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston.

It shall be the duty of the Committee on Publication to correct in a Christian manner impositions on the public in regard to Christian Science, injustices done Mrs. Eddy or members of this Church by the daily press, by periodicals or circulated literature of any sort.

How do you write a book? If you've Andrew Clements , you know the "how" begins with looking for the story in a character, an idea, a situation, or a setting. And then it involves picking up your frindle and starting to.

A young college student flunking out of classes, on drugs, in the middle of a marriage falling apart, contemplating suicide. Doesn't sound like a bright future ahead.

To hear Marjorie Lord speak of her acting days isn't just to be transported from Broadway to Hollywood and back to the stage again—or simply to relive artistic accomplishments and famous roles played. It's to go deeper, and stand in awe of the countless examples of the one divine actor at work.

PAUL GRIMES: "I just love the practice. I just love it.

Bob Holcomb grew up in California, but now lives in Concord, Massachusetts—the place where Ralph Waldo Emerson, the father of the transcendental movement, and Henry David Thoreau, famous for his book, Walden, pondered the nature of the human spirit. In his work as a Christian Science practitioner and teacher, Bob deeply explores the spiritual nature of reality and proves its relevance in many different venues.

"I never start a lesson by seeing somebody who has a problem that needs fixing," says golf instructor Laird Small. "That's helpful because many golfers have negative mindsets.

LOIS CARLSON loves music, people who love music, and living IN Chicago's West Loop neighborhood in a rehabbed industrial building with walls so thick she can play her piano fortissimo and not bother the neighbors. But it's too bad her neighbors can't hear her laugh, either—Lois's rolling, laugh-with-me, healing kind of laugh that can zap pretense and demolish fear.

According to metaphysician WILLIAM MOODY, to heal others as Jesus did requires humility—humility that springs from the assurance that we are God's divine ideas and thus coexistent with the infinite Mind that created and maintains us. WILLIAM MOODY found Christian Science in college when a friend shared a copy of Science and Health that she purchased for ten cents at a used book fair.