If there is a god, and he or she wanted to deliver an important message to the world, Leah Wagner would seem a peculiar choice of messenger. A middle-aged widow and mother of two, Leah is not religious and doesn't attend church. Her life is patently uneventful.
God speaks in mysterious ways, however. Or so Leah claims upon emerging from a coma after a devastating car accident nearly kills her. The message is simple: "God loves us and wants us to love each other in the same way. God wants us to embrace humility and selflessness instead of acquisition and achievement."
The fallout from...
If there is a god, and he or she wanted to deliver an important message to the world, Leah Wagner would seem a peculiar choice of messenger. A midd...
In 1962, Louis is just like any eight-year-old boy-curious and prattling off an endless string of questions. And then the seizures begin.
Meanwhile, the Cold War seems to be breeding erratic behavior. Louis's family lives just twenty miles from a US Air Force base that is part of the US deterrent strategy of Mutually Assured Destruction. When a wealthy civilian neighbor begins building a bomb shelter to protect his family against a Soviet nuclear attack, Louis can't stop thinking about it. One doctor even goes so far as to declare the boy's seizures as psychological in origin, but...
In 1962, Louis is just like any eight-year-old boy-curious and prattling off an endless string of questions. And then the seizures begin.