The uncommon touch

"Long ago - before doctors, pharmacists, and hospitals - religion and medicine were one, and physical and spiritual ailments were treated alike. Most world religions practised healing, including the early Christian Church, which followed Jesus Christ's examples of miraculous healings of the lame and the blind. But, to its cost, the modern Church has largely forgotten its healing role, says Tom Harpur in his new book, The Uncommon Touch, a powerful and persuasive investigation of spiritual healing." "Today in the West, medical science and bogus faith-healings have made the idea of spiritual…