Interviews

SIMON WARD tells me he doesn't remember the precise moment he decided to become an archaeologist. Childhood found him drawn to historical sites during summer holidays, and growing up in London in a family of artists, he explored every corner of the great museums.

During the ten years that Keith Wommack played in his rock band, The Wommack Brothers Band, he never traveled without the Bible and the writings of Mary Baker Eddy. His band shared the stage with marquee performers such as Stevie Ray Vaughan, Elvis Costello, and Journey.

Little did Candace du Mars know that her life was about to change—forever—the day her little girl, Alice, a kindergartner at the time, came home after visiting a friend's Sunday School. Alice exclaimed that she'd found a new Sunday School, and Candace—or Candy as her friends call her—picked up on her daughter's enthusiasm and started tagging along to church.

AND SEEING THE MULTITUDES, HE WENT UP INTO A MOUNTAIN: AND WHEN HE WAS SET, HIS DISCIPLES CAME UNTO HIM: AND HE OPENED HIS MOUTH, AND TAUGHT THEM, SAYING, TAKE NO THOUGHT FOR YOUR LIFE, WHAT YE SHALL EAT, OR WHAT YE SHALL DRINK. IS NOT THE LIFE MORE THAN MEAT, AND THE BODY THAN RAIMENT?

The flyleaf of Walt Rodgers' well-worn Science and Health reads like a world history lesson. Some sample entries give a scope of when he paused for a spiritual truth during his many travels: "June 1987, The Kremlin".

People throughout the world long to see the positive impact their prayers have on humanity. When the Berlin wall fell, accounts abounded of people around the globe who had been praying to see the end to that human suffering and bondage.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PRACTITIONER AND TEACHER SABRINA STILLWELL FROM OGDEN, UTAH, TELLS HOW TRUST IN GOD, THE DIVINE SPIRIT, SILENCES FEAR — AND COMFORTS, GUIDES, AND RESCUES. Children have always played a significant role in Sabrina Stillwell 's life.

IF YOU WANT YOUR CHURCH TO PROSPER AND GROW, THEN COMMIT FULLY AND SELFLESSLY TO YOUR CHURCH, SAYS CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TEACHER AND PRACTITIONER  MARK SWINNEY—  SERVE, PRAY, AND HEAL. GIVE FREELY.

LOOKING FOR RELIEF? TURN IN PRAYER TO THE OMNIPRESENT SPIRIT, THE DIVINE MIND, WHO WILL DELIVER YOU FROM ANY KIND OF TROUBLE, SAYS CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PRACTITIONER AND TEACHER EBERHARD LASCH FROM MEXICO CITY. Eberhard Lasch stopped in Boston in June—just long enough for me to snap his picture and touch base on our e-mail dialogue that ended up spanning three continents.

Like most kids who think about what to do when they grow up, Josephine Pickup had a ready answer when one of her Sunday School teachers years ago asked her that question: "A Christian Science practitioner!" But unlike a lot of kids who dream about their future careers, eight-year-old Jo really did grow up to become just what she'd said that day so many years ago. As Jo tells it, "When I was five years old, the top of my spine started to protrude at the back of my neck.