Miracles of South Carolina: True Stories of Grace in the Palmetto State

Robbie Goodall Boman s new book, Miracles of South Carolina, is for believers and skeptics alike. True stories of grace fill its pages, many told publicly for the first time. From a Providentially inscribed Bible to a lakeside guardian angel to forewarnings, saving voices, and comforting visions, Boman tells of firsthand experiences of faith, surprise, and the miraculous. Healings of the body and the soul are scattered throughout, as are angels, reassuring messages from loved ones now gone, and more.

"Often, and rather surprisingly, when the subject of miracles came up during my research," Boman says, "people rushed to speak. . . . This was not selfish zeal. Instead, it acknowledged a pent-up desire to find someone, anyone, who would really listen and not dismiss a supernatural occurrence as a lie or 'crazy.' That s the word people almost always used."

Contrary to some stereotypes, the divine interventions were intense but not sappy or silly. "On the contrary," she says, "each interviewee described a super-charged slice of time in precise, objective, factual language. It seemed vital to translate the experience, to get it just right, in understandable, precise, human terms."

All of the stories in Miracles of South Carolina are true. Miracles are happening right here in the Palmetto State, and as Robbie Boman has discovered, they are happening to people very much like you.