Interviews

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.

Through an exchange of letters, contributing editor Warren Bolon interviewed a man whose thinking and life have been radically changed through his study of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy . You were in prison for eighteen years before learning about Christian Science through reading Science and Health.

Sue Pomeroy is the founder, director, and producer of Good Company Theatre Productions based in Brighton, England. She has directed many productions of classical and new work for major regional companies throughout England.

With this interview we continue to examine some of the challenges and opportunities facing Christian Scientists today from the perspective of someone involved directly with legal and legislative issues. Philip G.

In a period when some students of Christian Science feel that the very active tempo of modern life makes it difficult for them to put some time aside each day for Christian Science practice, we found this interview, conducted for the periodicals by Pierre Pradervand, to be quite illuminating. His guest, Emery Tazuila, is from Zaire who has been employed for many years in one of Switzerland's largest chemical plants.

In her slow, deep, and deliberate honeyed voice, writer and poet Maya Angelou says that she does not "think fast" at all. What this versatile woman is doing with her life, she says, is taking both the rough and sweet experiences and slowly, slowly mulling them over for meaning and worth.

The role of women in the Christian Church has been the subject of much controversy in recent years. Different church bodies have wrestled with whether women should be ordained as members of the clergy.

As we continue our series of conversations with religious thinkers involved in the arts, contributing editor Hazel Joynes is speaking this month with Vivien ap Rhys Pryce of Calne, Wiltshire, England. Vivien is a Fellow Member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.

Earl C. Houck is senior pastor of Central United Methodist Church in Spokane, Washington.