On the surface, Caryl Farkas appears to be an anachronism in her largely secular, academic hometown of Madison, Wisconsin. A Christian Science practitioner and teacher, she has dedicated her life to spiritual healing, and enthusiastically attends and serves in church with her husband and their two children. On the other hand, “Most thinking people in town feel they’ve outgrown religion,” Caryl says. “They think of it as a kind of fairy tale; something that’s out of touch and has lost its relevance.”
For a time, Caryl had her own doubts about the practicality of the faith in which she was raised. After leaving Christian Science as a young woman, she later began an earnest search for truth, reading books on philosophy and spirituality. She met the man who would become her husband at a metaphysical bookstore.
Years later, after being instantaneously healed of an incapacitating illness, she recognized the truth of Christian Science. Not long after, both she and her husband became Christian Science practitioners.
