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Fred Clark does a wonderful job of reviewing Tim Stafford\u2019s book\u00a0Miracles (which I also recently reviewed) by relating it to the classic science fiction show The X-Files. Here is one of my favorite quotes from the piece, which is very helpful and insightful: Reading\u00a0Miracles, I kept feeling like AD Walter Skinner on\u00a0The X-Files,\u00a0listening to another […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,85,107],"tags":[847,2408,3558,3592,7502,8714,11379,12074,12613,13929],"class_list":["post-8614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-religion","category-science","category-x-files-science-fiction","tag-assistant-director-skinner","tag-dana-scully","tag-fox-mulder","tag-fred-clark","tag-miracles","tag-paranormal","tag-skepticism","tag-supernatural","tag-tim-stafford","tag-x-files"],"yoast_head":"\n
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