Interviews

The subject of the 1960s' pop hit "Ferry Cross the Mersey" still chugs across the Mersey River several times a day, just a short distance from Edna Watson's bungalow in Liverpool, England. Growing up in Yorkshire, Edna's father, a classical tenor, found Christian Science at a moment of great need.

Many people around the world first got to know Russ Gerber as the voice of Sentinel Radio. For some 15 years, every week Russ introduced and set the stage for the half-hour programs about spiritual healing that The Mother Church and sponsoring branch churches beamed around the world.

Once a mom—or "mum," as the British would say—always a mom. "Parenting is a 24/7 occupation that stretches ahead of us as far as we can see," JANE DICKINSON-SCOTT says with a wisdom born of raising six children.

Rob Gilbert looks for ways to help people. So after receiving a Masters of Theology in Biblical Studies from Boston University School of Theology, he joined the Army.

A Christian Scientist all of her life, and a native of Wisconsin, CONNIE CODDINGTON first advertised in the Journal as a Christian Science practitioner in 1983, soon after her first child was born. When her two daughters were in elementary school, Connie became a single mom.

Even when he was a trained biologist in Salzburg, Austria, ROBERT ENNEMOSER had a hunch there was a deeper dimension to life than one defined by matter. He moved on to the practice of homeopathy, and like Mary Baker Eddy, found that it glimpsed the fact there was more evidence of the mental influence than of medicine in healing.

This month the Journal profiles another new Christian Science teacher—Steven Salt, from Bexley, Ohio. Steven graduated from the Normal class of 2006.

This coming November will mark one year since the violent terrorist attacks took place in Mumbai, India. Journal Senior Writer Joan Taylor recently asked Jer Master, a Christian Science practitioner and teacher based in Mumbai, to shed light on praying about the dark thoughts behind terrorism, hatred, and fear.

You know how going on a trip can change you? You get rewired, reshaped, reprogrammed. As if you've hit the reset button on your internal computer.

JONI OVERTON-JUNG'S WEBSITE SPILLS OUT A message from Dante in bold black letters that flow like a river from the horizon: "Infinite goodness has such wide arms. " Joni has felt the tender embrace of those wide arms.