Interviews

Designed by Ann Beha Architects, The Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity, which opens this month in Boston is as much an urban renewal enterprise—a breath-of-fresh-air, park-like gift to the community—as it is a building project honor of the powerful ideas of a unique individual. The stone 1930s neoclassical Christian Science Publishing House, which is also home to The Christian Science Monitor and to which the graceful steel and glass modern library entrance has been added still stands largely intact.

Every day the media brings images of terrorism and war into our living rooms. These images can be haunting.

THE BROTHERHOOD OF HUMANITY IN ACTION The news media regularly report on desperate human needs. But often the problems seem so huge and formless to the millions of readers and viewers hearing the reports, that they don't see a way to be of help.

Huston Smith's many books have garnered countless accolades during his half-century career as one of the world's preeminent religious historians. But when I met with him at his Berkeley, California, home following the lecture series devoted to the subject of his latest book, Why Religion Matters, the genial professor told me that one of his favorite reviews appeared in the Journal's sister publication, The Christian Science Monitor.

Actress Kathryn Hays is probably best known as Kim Hughes of As The World Turns. She has been playing Kim for the past 30 years.

John Ranson has done overseas business development for a Fortune 500 company with operations in Russia, central Europe, and North Africa. He now consults from his home base in St.

Amy Domini of Domini Social Investments can trace the roots of socially responsible investing (SRI) back more than two centuries. The movement, she says, evolved "out of faith-based investment decisions," and was accelerated by environmental and human rights movements in the 1960s and '70s.

Talbot D'Alemberte is the president of Florida State University. Known by the nickname Sandy, he has served in the Florida state legislature and has been president of the American Bar Association.

A professor of comparative religion and Indian studies at Harvard University, Diana L. Eck developed the Pluralism Project, which she has directed at Harvard for the past ten years.

Few people have held more roles in the winter Olympics than lifelong skier John Bower . In the 1964 '68 Winter Games, Bower competed in Nordic Combined, an event that includes cross-country skiing and ski jumping.