Lee Strobel, the former skeptic turned investigative Christian journalist, is back with a new documentary that will play in theaters December 15–18, a timely release meant to remind Americans of the miracle at the heart of Christmas. The limited theatrical run is a welcome alternative to the hollow, secular holiday fare pushed by Hollywood and gives families a chance to celebrate faith openly.
The film, The Case for Miracles, revisits Strobel’s conversion story and follows his search into modern-day claims of supernatural healings and divine intervention, putting eyewitness testimony and documentation on the table for audiences to judge. This isn’t soft spirituality — it’s an evidentiary look at people who insist something beyond medicine touched their lives, and it dares skeptics to explain what happened.
One of the most powerful stories Strobel shares involves a woman named Barbara, stricken with aggressive multiple sclerosis and sent to hospice after years of deterioration. According to Strobel’s investigation, armed with medical records and eyewitnesses, Barbara was virtually blind, curled up in bed with a tube in her throat and lungs failing — and then, after a wave of prayer from listeners of a Christian radio station, she heard a voice tell her to get up. In a scene that will make even hardened skeptics pause, she removed the tube, walked into church, and found her sight restored in a moment that doctors called medically impossible.
Even physicians were left baffled; one reportedly told Strobel that when he saw her walking toward his office his immediate thought was that he was seeing a ghost — a dismissive, spiritual reaction that reveals more about today’s cultural blindness than about what actually occurred. For conservatives who have watched our institutions close ranks around trendy theories and ideological dogma, stories like Barbara’s highlight the arrogance of declaring the miraculous dead.
Strobel’s film doesn’t ask viewers to swallow fantasy; it brings medical records, firsthand interviews, and the testimony of those who prayed, forcing a reckoning between secular certainty and the lived experiences of ordinary believers. If America still values truth and liberty, we should demand honest reporting of such events instead of sneering them away to protect a godless worldview promoted by elites in media and academia. The film’s theatrical dates and promotional materials make it clear this is a serious, documented inquiry — not a feel-good fluff piece.
This Christmas, hardworking Americans deserve to see a movie that puts God back in the conversation and reminds us that faith has always been the source of hope for our families and our nation. Go see The Case for Miracles, bring your neighbors, and don’t let the smug, secular gatekeepers of culture tell you what you may or may not believe about the supernatural. In a time when our traditions and freedoms are under pressure, standing for the truth of God’s work is a patriotic act.
