What if you met a man who told you he was an angel? Would you believe him?
That was the premise of the groundbreaking NBC show Highway to Heaven, which ended its five-season run 30 years ago on August 4, 1989. The 111-episode series featured actor Michael Landon in the role of Jonathan Smith, a man who died 40 years earlier and was back on Earth as an angel on probation to do good work on God's behalf. In the series, God was referred to as "the boss."
Sure, this feel-good series was corny at times, but it did a beautiful job tackling the belief of divine providence. God's intervention in the universe, through the use of miracles and power of prayer, is a constant of denominations across Christendom, including Catholicism, Orthodoxy and Protestantism. Martin Luther, for example, wrote that divine providence began the moment God created the world, including both among physical things and natural laws. In the show, this very concept was referred to as "the stuff."
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