What We Talk About When We Talk About Miracles

For the most part, we humans seem to believe only in miracles that experience tells us are actually possible.

Miracles have been on my mind since last week when I heard the story of Kateri Tekakwitha, a 17th century Mohawk-Algonquin woman whom the Vatican plans to canonize. The miracle that sealed her canonization was 5-year-old Jake Finkbonner’s 2006 recovery from the flesh-eating…