We can describe the Nebraska church incident as the coming together of random events in a way that appeared meaningful but had no purposeful, controlling force behind it. Tardiness for choir practice in churches is common. In my experience to find fifteen people late for a church gathering is less rare than to find fifteen on time. Most of these situations pass unnoticed because there is nothing interesting about them. The Nebraska church episode made news because an explosion occurred, and the explosion made an ordinary and otherwise uninteresting situation seem to take on special meaning.
Coincidences happen to everyone.
Most of them are trivial and elicit nothing more than a vague feeling of puzzlement, a grin or a shrug. Something reminds us of a long-gone friend whom we have not thought of in years, and the next day we receive a phone call from that friend. We learn the definition of a word we have never noticed before, and in the next few days the word pops up in everything we read. We have been job-hunting for months and nothing has turned up. Suddenly we get three offers on the same day.