Interviews

In her book Martha Matilda Harper and the American Dream, author Jane R. Plitt tells of the extraordinary spiritual journey of a seven-year-old Canadian girl sent from home by her father in 1864 to be a servant in the home of another family.

Bruce Clark is the owner and operator of an outplacement firm in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. He shared some of his insights on job identity with field editor Cynthia Gray.

Beverly Bemis Hawks DeWindt has been a Christian Science healer and teacher for many years. Recently, Cynthia Gray asked Beverly to talk about pregnancy and parenting—in her own experience as a mother and grandmother, and in terms of the ways she's helped other parents to see the spiritual nature of their children.

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.