Interviews

The Reverend Ricky Porter is an ordained Presbyterian clergyman and a reader of Science and Health. Formerly the administrator of the Pomona-Inland Valley Council of Churches, he has also worked as dean of the Office of Black Student Affairs at the Claremont Colleges in Claremont, California.

After reading Healing of Soul, Healing of Body: Spiritual Leaders Unfold the Strength & Solace in Psalms, staff editor Gail Gilliland discussed the book via e-mail with its editor, Rabbi Simkha Y. Weintraub.

Earlier this year, the Journal talked with Lawrence Uzzell , the director of Keston Institute in Oxford, England. The Institute monitors freedom of religion in Communist and post-Communist countries.

In 1985, at the age of 32, Hamilton Mvumelwano "Mvume" Dandala was imprisoned by the South African government for his role as a church leader in the struggle against apartheid. For two weeks he was harshly treated and interrogated.

Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel was born in Romania. At the age of 16, he was deported, along with his family, to Nazi concentration camps.

Most deeply religious people have at some time or other grappled with the question of evil in the world. If God is good, and doesn't inflict evil on creation, then where does evil come from? While the Journal would not want to trivialize the importance of this question—particularly in an issue that contains an interview with Elie Wiesel, who has dedicated his life to the memory of those who did not survive the Jewish Holocaust—the staff felt a discussion with an experienced spiritual healer would help to comfort those of our readers who may be facing personal challenges they know in their hearts they don't deserve.

Colleen Douglass interviews award-winning painter and sculptor, Artis Lane. Ms.

This interview with contributing editor Richard Bergenheim was heard on the Christian Science Sentinel—Radio Edition, first broadcast during the week of December 6, 1999. The interviewer is Alexis Deacon of the Radio Edition staff.

Rebecca Silver Weber is a concert pianist who has performed in solo and chamber music concerts throughout the United States. She has appeared in performance with members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the New York Philharmonic, and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.

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