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Does God hear me when I pray? Can he change things here on earth? Throughout his life as a theologian, Christian minister and cosmologist, Professor David Wilkinson has been asking, ‘what does God do when I pray?’. The question became acutely personal after his wife, Alison, developed first ME and then crippling rheumatoid arthritis.

As everyone seemed to praying for her recovery, but no healing appeared for many years, the couple and their children felt their faith come into sharp focus.

For their children – now both working for the Church – there was a profound crisis of faith which left them unable to pray.
For David, anger and confusion that his wife – also a minister of a growing church – was unable to walk, let alone lead her church.
Yet, from Alison, they all learnt the importance of trusting God, despite her ongoing illness.
Naomi Wellings meets a family whose faith was shaken, but ultimately strengthened.

As an astrophysicist looking to the laws of science, David came to see that physics didn’t rule out God’s ability to act in the world. And while he knows he can’t understand the mechanism through which God intervenes in the lives of humans, he has regained a deep sense of trust, that what he does know of God and of physics, gives him cause to believe God is ultimately in control of an often painful world.
Their story ends with science having answers, but in those answers they see God.

[Photo: Christian minister and cosmologist, Professor David Wilkinson and his family]

Producer: Presenter: Naomi Wellings
Executive Producer: Rajeev Gupta
Editor: Chloe Walker
Production Coordinator: Mica Nepomuceno