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Is there a middle ground between miracles and tall tales? Here's a book to help believers in Christianity make sense of it all. On June 1, 1974, a woman in England claims to have watched a news account of a massive a chemical plant explosion that killed 28 people-four hours before it actually happened! In 1963 a woman's husband mysteriously disappeared. She consulted a psychic who, upon handling a piece of one of the husband's shirts, immediately announced, "he's in La Jolla. He went there to heal a psychic wound when he was 14 and his father disappeared." That turned out to be accurate! In the United States, apparitions, miracle cures, and other paranormal phenomena, including stigmata, possessions, ghostly apparitions, and weeping (or bleeding) statues, have recently been reported in 8 states and at least two boroughs of New York City. Many people dismiss such stories as urban legends or as the kind of tall tales children tell in order to scare each other. Even though visions, prophecies, and miracles have been a focal point of religious faith throughout history, the skepticism of the modern world has tended to gloss over or ridicule reports of these phenomena. Nevertheless, many

Author

Lisa J. Schwebel

Publisher

Paulist Press

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9781616436957

Subjects

Philosophy, Psychology, Religion