Christianity must become progressive, or else it might die.

[Tweedy]

20. Kenneth Copeland's followers died of covid in record numbers

That said, faith, even faith in a grifter, can be healing. Is that a miracle? I suppose it is lovely for the person healed. What does it matter to them from whence their healing came?

As for Jesus’ miracles, many people take strength from their recounting. That strength, too, is real. I was not there. I cannot be a fact witness. The gospels themselves have been rewritten more times than anybody likely knows and I don’t read Aramaic, either.

There is much more happening in our synapses (perhaps electrons singing at a spooky distance 😉?) than your dry reading of life would allow.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stagmomantis

I saw one of these this week. No doubt, it exists because of evolutionary moments of which I remain unaware. That dry book feeling (and I love reading just about any old thing) does not explain how seeing what I thought was a stick move made me feel.

The wonder of this world is absolutely real, absolutely spectacular and absolutely healing even if each and every second of it can be explained in infinite detail. In fact, even the explanations are often extraordinary.

Have a wonderful Sunday with many perfectly explainable miracles within reach