Maggie and Gordon Reed with their daughter Abigail are just getting settled on their farm in eastern Kansas when Maggies sister dies. Maggie blames herself for her sisters death, and her grief is so great that she decides to jeopardize her marriage and her own childs health as she enters into an improbable relationship with Rita Montreaux and her husband John. Reluctant Miracle is the tale of these two women, one elegant and black, the other down-to-earth and white, as they clash in their search for a middle ground where they can work out their differences.
A Reluctant Miracle Reluctant because there were times when I begged God to take me from this world. A miracle in so many ways. A miracle that God refused to take me, and even more so, that I'm so glad he didn't.
When Jenna Trayne's oncologist sadly informs her that there is nothing more to be done for her cancer, she pleads with her husband, Frank, for one last evening of intimacy before she dies.
You are really going to think I'm crazy when I tell you this one: I heard the voice of the Great Mysterious. ... I am white, middle class, state school educated, married with kids, and live in a Middle America, rural small town .
Reluctantly, Leon shut down his successful Atlanta business and moved to Iquitos, Peru - though he had no idea what he would do when he got there. Leon immediately fell in love with the indigenous people.
New York: Longman, Pearson Education, 2003. Howson, “Bayesianism.” Howson, Colin. “Bayesianism.” Pages 103–14 in The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science. Edited by Stathis Psillos and Martin Curd. New York: Routledge, 2008.
Graham Twelftree extensively examines the miracles of each Gospel narrative. He weighs their historical reliability and considers the question of miracles and the modern mind.
He mentions only two miracles, the resurrection and ascension, perhaps because any others were not important to his ... He was sometimes a reluctant miracle worker, not only in the wilderness where he resisted the temptation to be a ...
For more on the experiences of female pilgrims see: L.A. Craig, Wandering Women and Holy Matrons: Women as Pilgrims in the Later Middle Ages, Leiden, 2009. Miracvla sancte Margarite, p. 75. Ward, Miracles and the Medieval Mind, p. 81.
In Philo, miracles seldom do involve any human intermediary, Moses and Aaron being the only real exceptions. Pseudo-Philo and Jubilees ... attributed directly to God.7 The miraculous abundance described in ch. 29 is associated with 6.
So , using this argument , a wise person should always be extremely reluctant to believe a report that a miracle has occurred . It is always logically possible that someone could rise from the dead , but there is a great amount of ...