Interviews

What are the goals and benefits of dialogue among Christian churches? Is there a scriptural basis for different faiths coming together in unity? Does Christian Science have a place at the table? In this lively interview, Michael Kinnamon , former General Secretary of the National Council of Churches, and Shirley Paulson , Head of Ecumenical Affairs for the Church of Christ, Scientist, tackle these and other pertinent questions. Hosted by TMC Youth’s Chet Manchester , the interview is adapted from a live chat, “Christianity Beyond Borders,” originally broadcast on time4thinkers.

Christian Science practitioner and teacher William Stay likes to keep it simple. “I love to use analogies when it comes to healing, because it opens up thought to what we actually are, ” he says.

In today’s world in which the Internet has made publishing content easier than ever, a legal term we hear but may not fully understand is copyright. The  Journal asked The Mother Church’s General Counsel, Kevin Ness , to shed some light on copyrights and how they relate to the work of The Mother Church and its branches.

Emmanuel M’Foundani has been a Christian Science practitioner in the Republic of Congo since 2005. A father of seven children, Emmanuel lives with his family in Pointe-Noire, the country’s second largest city, where he worked as director of a shipping agency for 20 years before advertising his healing practice in the Journal.

Bob and his wife, Judy, have a lovely townhouse on top of a hill looking over Walnut Creek, California. In the near distance is beautiful Mount Diablo, which towers above everything.

There’s a modest but fresh spirit evident at The Mother Church in Boston and among its members around the world. You might call it a spirit of pioneering, discovering new paths to bless the world with scientific Christianity.

By the time Margarita Thatcher arrived in the United States at age 16 she had acquired impressive language skills. Born in Switzerland and raised primarily in Argentina, she spoke four languages fluently—French, German, Spanish, and English.

We’ve probably all been there. We’re reading the Bible and we ask: How does this relate to my life? If this is the Word of God, shouldn’t it mean something to me? Christian Science practitioner and teacher Barbara Pettis has asked this question—and has come to see how the Bible is actually urgently needed.

No, he isn’t a skydiver. Or a foreign agent.

Almost 20 years ago, Janet Clements began “modestly” in the Christian Science healing practice, setting aside several hours a day to pray for the world—for those who were homeless, for children who were abused, for people who were ill, and for those at war. “I embraced the world in Christly love, until I had a sense of peace,” Janet says.