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Failed Prayer Studies: A Response

March 10, 2018 by Randal

The topic of scientific prayer studies recently came up on Twitter. As an outcome of that exchange, I committed to responding to the failure of one particular prayer study to establish a link between prayer and healing. The study in question is discussed in an article titled “Power of prayer flunks an unusual test” where […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, healing, petitionary prayer, prayer, providence

Will there be deafness in heaven? What about cancer?

January 10, 2014 by Randal

Chapter 8 of my book What on Earth do we Know About Heaven? (Baker, 2012) addresses the topic of the Deaf in heaven. In the chapter I point out that we need to distinguish between being deaf (an auditory deficiency) and being Deaf (a member of Deaf culture). Deafness in the latter sense is not […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: cancer, culture, Deaf, deafness, healing, heaven

David Haitel’s testimony

January 31, 2013 by Randal

The tradition of sharing one’s testimony, of telling what God has done in one’s life, is deeply rooted in the Protestant tradition. My own apologetic interest in testimonies is found in the presence of elements like documented healings and cases of synchronicity (or what are colloquially called “God moments” or “God winks; in my own published […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: David Haitel, healing, miracle, synchronicity, testimony

The spectacular success of methodological naturalism … or scientism run amok?

March 13, 2011 by Randal

In “When is a medical anomaly a miracle?” I recounted the case of Victoria, a young girl who suffered from the potentially fatal condition of aplastic anemia. Suddenly on the day before she was scheduled to undergo a bone marrow transplant she went into remission. Without offering a technical definition of miracle, I argued that her parents are […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, healing, methodological naturalism, miracle, naturalism

When is a medical anomaly a miracle?

March 5, 2011 by Randal

The following discussion of miracles is excerpted from my book Faith Lacking Understanding:  “We often speak loosely of miracles: I call it a miracle that my team made the playoffs or that your old jalopy is still running. However, the formal definition of miracle concerns God’s action in the world and encompasses such biblical events […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: aplastic anemia, divine action, healing, miracle, providence

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