"All day e-mails pop up on my computer screen with requests for healing prayer," relates self-described technology enthusiast a Christian Science teacher and practitioner in Brisbane, Australia. After all, she says, "we live in the 21st century, and we communicate in 21st-century ways."
So it may not surprise you that we found ourselves spinning rather naturally into a 21st-century cyber conversation. Cyber-dialogue is so new millennium—and it's so practical for someone like Ms. Goldsmith, who not only tackles nonstop professional demands, but whose down-under clock currently runs 15 hours ahead of folks here on the East Coast of the US. Brisbanites virtually live in the future. Which means that while I'm heading to church on Wednesday evening, it's Thursday morning for Goldsmith, who sits outdoors in her garden and e-mails me using the latest wireless mobile technology.
Goldsmith started her professional practice of Christian Science healing while in her mid-20s, and shortly thereafter began advertising her practice in the Journal. In 1991, she became a Christian Science teacher. Today, her broadband ministry—conducted via e-mail around the world—is only part of the wide spectrum of her tireless helping-other-people activities. She conducts workshops in Australia and New Zealand as a member of The Christian Science Board of Lectureship; writes articles as a contributing editor for this magazine and for our weekly sister publication, the Christian Science Sentinel; and teaches an annual how-to class on spiritual healing in which many of the concepts highlighted here are studied in depth.
