The world as we know it is about to end. Not in fire and blood but with the coming of the Messiah.
The Miracle Man (O-Books) by Maggy Whitehouse is a story of a modern-day Messiah who becomes a judge on a hugely popular TV talent show. But would the Messiah really come to Las Vegas rather than Jerusalem? Would he be a wealthy TV megastar? Would he be a Jew, not a Christian?
Every move that Miracle Man, Josh Goldstone, makes is blasted over the internet and makes the headlines in newspapers and on television, as he uses his healing powers to wipe out alcoholism, drug use and gambling – in fact, just about any addiction that is rampant in our culture today.
But Christianity teaches that the Anti-Christ will masquerade as a healer and fundamental Christians are quick to denounce this powerful threat to their faith. Worse, the healing of the nations means that people don’t need Medicare, drugs, alcohol or even wealth. The economy will crash with a pain-free and happy population.
Josh’s next goal is politics; joining forces with the Dalai Lama to inspire a celebrity-led peaceful liberation of Tibet and accomplishing an astonishing ‘about face’ in Chinese policy. Now he has become a threat to the whole world order.
The Miracle Man cleverly follows the chronology of the four Gospels of the New Testament, portraying every main character, with a modern name, and all the miracles in a present-day setting. Now the greatest story ever told is updated for a media-driven, celebrity-obsessed secular world.

The Miracle Man Story


Maggy has written five novels and four of them have had something to do with Jesus of Nazareth. She wrote the first three to help heal herself after a Catholic priest told her that her dying husband could not go to heaven because he was not Christian.

That priest turned out to be an angel in disguise because he made Maggy throw out her previous ‘armchair Christianity’ and start to study what that guy Jesus was actually all about.

You’ll probably already know what she soon realised: that Jesus was not a Christian; he was a Jewish mystic. And studying Judaic mysticism in the form of the Toledano Tradition of Kabbalah became Maggy’s own path of revelation. Suddenly it all made sense.

The Book of Deborah was first published by Time Warner in 1996, followed by Into the Kingdom and Leaves of the Tree. All three were about an adopted sister of Jesus who grew up with him, travelled with him and, after the crucifixion, went on to become a teacher in her own right in Alexandria and Rome (having a few issues with St. Paul along the way).

The Miracle Man was born on 22nd December 2008 when Maggy and her husband Peter’s friend Roger Holdom came to supper and asked her who Jesus Christ would be if he came today. He suggested Simon Cowell as someone incredibly powerful who would be able to get his message across to hundreds of millions.

The idea fascinated Maggy and she began to write the following morning. She took the chronology of the miracles in all four Gospels as her guidance points and let the characters in the New Testament tell their own story for the 21st century. As with all novels, the characters took the reins and updated their own stories with verve. They took the story to India and Tibet themselves and gave Maggy the added delight of researching the Dalai Lama’s teachings in order to catch up with them.

It is important to say that The Miracle Man is not a book about Christianity and Josh Goldstone is not Jesus. He is uniquely himself; a man as loving, as powerful and as clear as Jesus was.  It is about our capacity to live life miraculously, finding our own joy and inspiring others along the way.  If, however, it should take you back to the Bible to check it out for yourself, the author would be delighted. There’s a lot more in those books than ever we are taught in church.
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