Interviews

In its ninety-year history , The Christian Science Monitor has won a fair share of journalism awards, including six Pulitzer Prizes. Perhaps more important, it has won readers' hearts to a fairer view of humanity, supplying realism that is both truthful and respectful.

Two young mothers, Kim Isaacs and Sarah Brokensha , meet every Thursday morning to study the Weekly Bible Lesson  From the Christian Science Quarterly together on a remote farm, several miles from the village of Shakaskraal in Kwa-Zulu-Natal . Earlier this year, our News Editor, Kim Shippey , eavesdropped (with permission!) on one of these informal gatherings, and here is his report.

Margaret McConnell and her husband, Victor, have lived as close as anyone we know to the "troubles" of the past thirty years in Belfast, Northern Ireland. They are about four miles from the city center, but bombs, guns, and other forms of violence have never kept them from church attendance, from serving in the local Christian Science Reading Room, nor from their family and work commitments.

Tatyana Sokolova : Olga Alexandrovna Barteneva was a member and First Reader in the Christian Science Society in St. Petersburg.

Over the past year, employees at The Mother Church in Boston, Massachusetts, have been gathering in the Sunday School building almost every Thursday to bear from the various departments at the Church Center about bow their work is fulfilling the mission, purpose, focus, and priority objectives of the Church of Christ, Scientist. Last May, Barbara M.

Recently , Sarah M. Gibson , a teacher in a Christian Science Sunday School in Ohio, interviewed Julie Washabaugh , who attends Kent State University.

These days it seems necessary to have enforcement officers in many areas of modern life— and we don't just mean police officers! There are men and women whose job it is to enforce rules about such things as skateboarding, graffiti, garbage dumping, river pollution, and parking violations. Others are required to pursue offenders such as "deadbeat dads" who don't pay their child support and individuals who avoid paying their income tax.

To explain the genesis of the set of working priorities developed by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, the Editors recorded a conversation with Virginia S. Harris, Chairman of The Christian Science Board of Directors.

Recently the Editor of the Christian Science religious periodicals, William E. Moody , had the opportunity to discuss membership in The First Church of Christ, Scientist, as well as the whole process of applying for membership, with Olga Chaffee, Clerk of The Mother Church.

Muriel Lebrun Marceau's early years as an actress involved her in the theater. Later in her life while watching a performance by Marcel Marceau, the famous French mime, she became aware of an element that she feels can lift theater from the entertaining to the inspirational.