I thought this was an amazing article considering it was written by a Pentecostal Protestant! Not only does he acknowledge Mary and the saints, but actually praises her! This is a sign unto its self. http://www.churchpop.com/2015/03/20/this-protestant-researched-marian-miracles/
This is an article that I could have written myself(!)... The key division that I can see growing right now is not between Christian denominations but within them between those on one hand who are prepared to acknowledge and go with the signs of God's action in today's world and those on the other who have the theological blinkers on (plenty of those in all traditions, I'm afraid...). This all revolves - as it did in the New Testament - around openness to genuine evidence. There is something very convenient for a certain 'religious' (in the negative sense) mindset in the notion of a God who doesn't actually do anything right now, who leaves us in control. Except that such a theoretical deity is most definitely not the Living God of the Scriptures...
A stagnant God was something I could indentify with 30 years ago. A God who was out there, but was not personal or concerned about the details of our life. Then I was introduced to the story of Fatima. I could hardly believe what I was hearing. I thought it couldn't be as I was raised in a good Catholic family and went to Catholic school and never heard anything like this before. So I studied and the more I studied a whole new perspective on God was awakened in my soul. Yes God was and is intimate in the smallest details of life. He is not indifferent to our soul. If only priests could understand this and express this in their homilies more people could come out of thier slumber.
