Bob Cornwall

Bob Cornwall is the senior pastor at Central Woodward Christian Church in Troy, Mich., a Disciples of Christ church. He operates a blog titled “Ponderings on a Faith Journey” which includes his reflections about young voters of faith.

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Robert Bruce Mullin

Robert Bruce Mullin is a history professor at the General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church in New York City. He has written about miracles and religious imagination and wrote the entry on miracles for The Oxford Companion to Christian Thought.

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Paula Kane

Paula Kane is an associate professor of Catholic studies at the University of Pittsburgh and teaches American religious history. She has been studying stigmata and Marian apparitions.

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Todd Klutz

Todd Klutz is a graduate of Wheaton College, a senior lecturer in New Testament studies at the University of Manchester in England and editor of Magic in the Biblical World: From the Rod of Aaron to the Ring of Solomon.

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Koichi Shinohara

Koichi Shinohara is a senior lecturer in the department of religious studies at Yale University in New Haven, Conn. She wrote the entry “Changing Roles of Miraculous Images in Medieval Chinese Buddhism” for the publication Images, Miracles and Authority in Asian Religious Traditions.

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Eitan P. Fishbane

Eitan P. Fishbane is an assistant professor of Jewish philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City, the intellectual center of Conservative Judaism. Fishbane is an expert in the history and literature of Jewish mysticism, including medieval Kabbalah.

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“Claims of apparitions of Mary met with skepticism, book shows”

A Dec. 16 Catholic News Service story looks at a new book released at the Vatican that “shows how the very idea of such apparitions has been met with skepticism and preoccupation within the church, from early Christian times to the present.” In fact, as few as nine of the 2,400 recorded Marian apparitions have been approved […]

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