Almost 20 years ago Curt Wahlberg made what many would say was a courageous, life-changing, decision. A successful mechanical engineer, Curt called his boss one day and told him he wouldn’t be returning to work—and he wasn’t sure what he’d be doing next.
“It was a difficult conversation,” Curt recalls. Yet, he had had a growing conviction for some time that his contribution in life lay apart from his attainments at work and his college degrees. “I was convinced it related to spiritual things, to being willing to follow the calling of God,” Curt explains by phone from his home in Lake Forest, California. “And I felt I was making a commitment to do that when I made that call.”
Shortly after, Curt launched into the public practice of Christian Science and later married and had three children with his wife, Melanie, who is also a Christian Science practitioner. Curt became a teacher of Christian Science in 2006 and then served as First Reader of The Mother Church in Boston.
