Gee, maybe it wasn't a miracle after all. That's the conclusion I had to draw after reading your Dec. 21 article "Baby's rally sparks joy (Churchgoers hail a miracle)".
Churchgoers thought they had witnessed a miracle when a troubled mother turned to God for help with a comatose baby and the baby responded, and half a million people who watched the video on YouTube must have been impressed. But you question whether prayer helped the baby or "a gradual physical recovery." The minister must have wondered whether you were going to demand to see her credentials to perform miracles.
Most people will take a faith-healing that produces results at face value; it's those whom healers can't help that make us have doubt. But you couldn't find a miracle in this story of a small Durham church whose faith has been strengthened after finding itself in the spotlight because it rallied around a faithful member believing that God can make a difference.
