“At the end of the day, it’s always going to be about drawing people closer to Christ and to the word of God. But I also think it’s a great thing if people have a show that they can binge-watch that speaks to their faith, because that’s really rare right now.”

 

Louis’s doctor told him, “This hasn’t happened in the way your healing did in 1997, but there is no doubt that this is a miracle all the same.”

 

“Parents need to know that this is out there, ... that you can develop manners, and intelligence, and still be a teenager. People don’t believe that this is possible. But it is.”

 

She had her arms flung up in the air, her head back and she was shouting: “I’m alive! I’m alive! I made it home alive!” I knew that soldier was me. I was home.

 

I listen to Dominic leading us in the familiar prayers I’ve heard almost every Saturday night of my life. “We praise you for the blessings of the past week: for life, health and strength, for home, love and friendship.”

 

At the closing ceremonies, the praise songs are loud and go late into the night, and as far as I know those hallelujahs are still being raised through the woods and fields of Camp Phillippo.