Article January 28, 2013 Issue

When a friend was healed

Jennifer Glaser

I was brought up as a practicing Jew in the south of England. I was educated in the Old Testament, taught the culture and history of Jewish people in Hebrew School, and daily attended a traditional girls’ school where about 99 percent of the students were Protestant Christians.

One rainy day during my high school years, I found myself going to the gymnasium, for I had a free period and no work to catch up on. As I sat there on a bench I saw a girl—whom I knew to be one of the few students from a Jewish background—on the high balance beam.

I continued to question this girl about Christian Science and the prayer that had healed her.