Second-trimester abortion survivor Lauren Eden knows she’s alive and here for a reason. Forty years ago, her teen mother tried aborting her six times, while her father, a college senior at the time, prayed for God’s timely intervention. Soon, miracles unfolded one after the other—15 of them in total. Born prematurely at 26 weeks after…

In John Coleman’s “Miracles,” his protagonist, Jaime Halasz, is a young, ambitious reporter with a newspaper in Atlanta, Georgia. She is, by nature, skeptical and would not consider herself a person of faith. She is more likely an agnostic, or a nonbeliever. Her gathering of the facts in this story requires much more than a notepad,…

I’m sometimes left wondering about this thing we call faith, a thing the philosopher Soren Kierkegaard celebrated as a paradox in which we, as individuals, have an absolute relationship with the Absolute, that is, God. There is power in faith, in the doubtless belief in something without the need for physical evidence. Those who do…