Interviews

Currently pursuing a doctorate in physics at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, ESMERALDA YITAMBEN grew up in Cameroon, Central Africa. She began attending a Christian Science Sunday school at the age of seven, shortly after her mother read Science and Health and joined a neighborhood Christian Science branch church.

I taxied over to the Upper East Side of New York City to meet with RUTH BARRATT, a visual and concept consultant. Her numerous creative projects range from an avant-garde Manhattan bistro to conceptualization of a theme village at Epcot® in Disney World.

A person's life is sometimes compared to a jigsaw puzzle. Fine, if God is understood to be the designer.

When Elise Moore was six years old, she knew what she wanted to be when she grew up. As she tells it, "I remember sitting on the curb, talking to my friend, saying I wanted to be a Christian Science practitioner like my aunt.

Jeffrey Hildner talks with Colonel (Ret. ) Janet Horton, Endorser of Christian Science for the Mother Church Military chaplains accompany US forces wherever they go.

Brooks Anderson's paintings, like all beautiful works of art, have a healing influence, because when people look at his paintings, they feel the influence of Soul, God. And they feel the presence of intelligence and principle and insight and mastery and control and creativity, which all come from one place, one omniscient power—Life.

LIKE MANY OF HIS FELLOW STUDENTS AT THE University of California, Berkeley, in the mid-1960s, Brian Talcott experienced an awakening. He realized that, rather than simply accept the status quo, he and his peers could use their speech and actions to help transform the world.

Thirty-one years ago, Marjorie Scherer pulled up roots in Idaho and replanted her family in Africa. She has been living there ever since.

During a routine examination in the seventh month of her second pregnancy, South Carolina resident Sherry Hyatt was told by her obstetrician that she was exhibiting symptoms of preeclampsia (also called toxemia)—a condition he said could be potentially fatal to both Sherry and her child. Because there is no known cure for preeclampsia, other than delivery of the baby, the doctor was very concerned, and wanted Sherry to spend the weekend in the hospital so he could monitor the condition—and deliver the baby early if necessary.