To paraphrase Shakespeare, there is nothing foreign, but thinking makes it so. To Bruce Fitzwater, there are no actual foreign cultures or languages, only those that we've not yet attempted to understand.
Raised on North America's Pacific Rim in Portland, Oregon, Bruce has long been aware of the need to bridge the cultural divides between West and East. For two years early in his career, he taught philosophy and religion at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Following completion of course work for a master's degree in philosophy, and after taking a course-changing class in Christian Science healing, he received, as he puts it, "an almost visual answer to prayer leading me to return to my hometown, returning to the tall grass 'in the field.'" After returning to Portland, Bruce began advertising as a Christian Science practitioner in 1974, and became a teacher of Christian Science 11 years later. He has traveled extensively in the US, Africa, and Asia as a Christian Science lecturer, and served ten years as Committee on Publication for Oregon.
Recently Bruce Fitzwater talked with Journal Senior Writer Warren Bolon about the history and future of global Christianity, and of his love for the practice of Christian healing.
