Christian Historian May Have Experienced Life-Saving Miracle. Either Way, It’s Proof Of Something Greater
We hear a lot of doom and gloom in the news these days, but one of the greatest silver linings in recent memory is that young people appear to be returning to Christianity, particularly Catholicism, in droves.
Data has shown that young men are returning to Christianity, slowly but surely, and I have personally heard countless stories about young people, both men and women, returning to the Church or converting in recent years. Vice President J.D. Vance is even releasing a book about his own conversion to Catholicism. Signs are pointing toward a resurgence in Church-going. . .
✝️🇺🇸 Record number of young people became Catholic at the Easter Vigil in the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, the US https://t.co/VDrEkMAw3l pic.twitter.com/FzXT62XePz
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) April 5, 2026
Even WaPo sees it.
Great news!
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— Steve Cortes (@CortesSteve) April 5, 2026
One of these writers is historian Tom Holland, whose bestselling book on the history of Christianity, “Dominion,” showed how Christian values are still massively influential in today’s society. Holland is also a recent convert. He was previously an atheist as a child and later an agnostic in adulthood, but he fully converted after suffering a cancer scare that he believes was cured by a miracle.
Holland’s brother connected him with a good doctor who specialized in his type of colon cancer, which certainly helped the prognosis. But Holland still thinks there may have been divine intervention that saved his life. . .
Whether he experienced a miracle is beside the point. Holland’s conversion story is still proof that humans crave mystery and authority. They crave wisdom and guidance from a higher power, especially in times of desperate need. Despite all the materialistic trappings of the modern world, they want to nourish their souls with the immaterial, with spirituality. (Read more from “Christian Historian May Have Experienced Life-Saving Miracle. Either Way, It’s Proof Of Something Greater” HERE)
