Who are your favorite authors who have delved into the topic of miracles? C.S. Lewis wrote a book called Miracles, and he obviously took a real philosophical stance in it, which was written back in the 1950s, but nothing has been written on the subject in such a long time.
What inspired you to research and write about miracles? I graduated from Dallas Theological Seminary in 1994, and I've been on numerous mission trips all over the world. I think that the way scripture is interpreted now is sometimes through the lens of false theology. Our society has made people feel like fools for believing in the miraculous, even though all the major world religions are based on miracles. I feel like miracles have been pushed aside, and people of all religions, especially Biblically based Christians, have been made out to be fools because we believe in something that cannot be proven scientifically, which is funny because that's the exact definition of a miracle.
Was there a mission trip that stood out to you? When I was a student at TCU, I developed migraine headaches, and they controlled my life for several years. I had to take a tranquilizer to numb the pain every time I got a headache, and I have a whole chapter based on that. When I was in Germany, I really understood for the first time what grace meant. While I was there, a friend of mine and I prayed for the healing of my migraines that they wouldn't incapacitate me anymore. I've never had another migraine, and that was in 1989. It was a very powerful experience for me that I know was God and I know he exists.
