It started out as an assignment from my Sunday School teacher. We were learning how to pray for ourselves through Christian Science. She gave us two assignments.
I took my first dance class when I was six, and fell in love with dancing. As a senior in high school I was faced with the age-old question that visits every dancer—should I dance or go to college?
Question: How do you get even a few moments with Haley Henderson-Smith and her husband, Easton Smith, who are understudies to the leads dancing in the ensemble on the national tour of the stage version of Eleanor Bergstein’s Dirty Dancing?
Answer: You use e-mail, cellphone, and your own legs to catch them after one of their weekly understudy rehearsals,
after one of their ballet classes, at the stage door after one of their eight performances a week, or at a daytime testimony meeting or a Sunday service in a Christian Science church.
For me, the last option proved best. “For us,” says Haley, “nothing is more important than these services.” read
My name is Marie. I’m 16, and I attend Christian Science Sunday School in Paris.
More than seven years ago, when I was in fourth grade, my knees were painful and I had bumps on both of them. My parents are not both Christian Scientists. They decided to take me to a doctor.
He diagnosed a tendon problem. He told me, “You have a choice, Marie. Either you have surgery, or you sit out the year and do no sports.” read
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