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EP 1,284B - PROVING A MIRACLE: Unlocking the Power of Prayer to Heal

Exploring the profound connection between science and faith: Are Miracles Real?

After experiencing a violent seizure, Dr. Brown was diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor—just days before his wife gave birth to their first child. As a brain scientist, he understood his chances of survival were slim, and that it was not a question of if a decline would begin, but when—and how much longer he had left. Desperate for a miracle, the trained scientist and son of a prison chaplain, armed with a healthy dose of skepticism, embarked on a journey that would take him around the globe and lead him to an astonishing conclusion: healing can happen outside traditional medicine, in ways that transcend modern scientific explanations. As he navigated his own diagnosis, Dr. Brown became convinced that miracles can and do regularly occur—including in his own life: remarkably, his cancerous tumor turned to scar tissue, and the seizures ceased.


EP 1,284B - PROVING A MIRACLE: Unlocking the Power of Prayer to Heal
Featured Speaker:
Joshua W. Brown, PhD

Joshua W. Brown is a professor of psychological and brain sciences and the former director of the graduate program in neuroscience at Indiana University. He is an internationally recognized expert and leading researcher on the neuroscience of higher cognitive function, and his research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the CIA. His work has been published in Science, Neuron, Nature Neuroscience, and more. He is a member of the Society for Neuroscience, the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, and is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. He has a bachelor’s degree from University of California San Diego in mechanical engineering and a Ph.D. from Boston University in cognitive and neural systems. He is the co-founder and chair of the board of the Global Medical Research Institute, which reviews medical evidence regarding claims of healing through prayer and is developing randomized and controlled clinical trials of healing prayer effects.